[MonoTouch] writing a photo (jpeg) to Photo Album

[Jason Awbrey]

according to the docs, the tags in the Dictionary you pass in will get
merged with any tags already embedded in the image.  If there is a conflict
the new tags in the dictionary overwrite the tags already embedded in the
image

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM, jGoff <info at goffs.net> wrote:

> Does anyone have a code snippet the shows how to use the ALAssetsLibrary
> class for saving a JPEG file.  I previously used the SaveToPhotosAlbum
> method in UIImage, but since it does not preserve the embedded metadata,
> I'm
> pretty sure I have to switch to WriteImageToSavedPhotosAlbum.  The
> beginning
> would be:
>
> using MonoTouch.AssetsLibrary;
> ...
> ALAssetsLibrary library = new ALAssetsLibrary();
>
> // parameters need to be prepared here
>
> library.WriteImageToSavedPhotosAlbum(
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But then what?  I'm a little confused that it wants me to pass in the
> metadata.  The image already has embedded metadata.  Do I have have to
> extract it, so I can pass it back in?  Also since it indicates that using
> imageData of Type UIImage is obsolete, which is the correct Type?
>
> Assistance doing this seemingly simple task would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
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