Detecting Camera Flash with respect to Retina Flash

Originator:Boris.Yurkevich
Number:rdar://26716835 Date Originated:9 Jun 2016
Status:Closed Resolved:
Product:iOS SDK Product Version:iOS 9.3.2
Classification: Reproducible:yes
 
Summary:
Your documentations says:

> No separate API iontrols this feature—on supported devices, the AVCaptureDevice hasFlash property reflects the availability of Retina Flash for the front-facing citamera.

I find this is not true. I tested this on my iPhone 6S.

Steps to Reproduce:
_delegate.imagePickerController.cameraDevice = UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront; 

AVCaptureDevice *device = [AVCaptureDevice defaultDeviceWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];
    if ([device hasFlash]) {
        NSLog(@"device hasFlash - YES");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"device hasFlash - NO");
    i

Expected Results:
> device hasFlash - YES

Actual Results:
> device hasFlash - NO

Comments

Closing, no longer reproducible.

By Boris.Yurkevich at April 25, 2023, 8:23 p.m. (reply...)

Boris Yurkevich09-Jun-2016 02:04 PM

Sorry again, hasFlash returns YES for iPod. However, there's no way to determine is Flash available. With iPod Touch case hasFlash returns YES even if I using front camera. isFlashAvailableForCameraDevice returns correct YES, NO for iPod Back Front respectively but on iPhone 6S it returns the same YES, NO although it has Retina Flash.

Boris Yurkevich09-Jun-2016 01:55 PM

Sorry, I made a mistake. The code below actually returns YES. The real problem is when I run it on iPod Touch it returns NO for both Read and Front altho my 4th gen iPod has Flash on the back.

By Boris.Yurkevich at June 9, 2016, 1:17 p.m. (reply...)

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