# AlexLittlejohn/ALCameraViewController

A camera view controller with custom image picker and image cropping.

Repository: https://github.com/AlexLittlejohn/ALCameraViewController
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alcameraviewcontroller
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: swift, camera, ios, photos, cropping
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-07-01T08:06:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4081, "days_push": 1524, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2018, forks 379 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.170374+00:00)

## What it is
An iOS Swift library providing a customizable camera view controller with a built-in image picker and image cropping. It wraps AVFoundation camera APIs with features like flash, zoom, tap-to-focus, and permission checking.

## Use cases
- capture photos with a custom camera ui in an ios app
- let users pick images from the photo library with permission handling
- crop images after capture or selection
- build a profile photo upload flow with cropping
- replace the default system camera picker with a cleaner interface

## When to choose
- building an older Swift 4 / iOS project needing a drop-in camera view controller
- you want camera capture, library picking, and cropping bundled in one component
- you are fine maintaining the code yourself since it is MIT licensed

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the library is explicitly unmaintained
- you need modern Swift concurrency or latest iOS API support
- you only need the iOS simulator - camera APIs require a real device
- you need video capture or advanced camera controls

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, photography
- platform: -
- tags: camera, image-picker, image-cropping, avfoundation, unmaintained, ios, swift, mobile

## Member repositories
- AlexLittlejohn/ALCameraViewController (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.170374+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:00:27.476945+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AlexLittlejohn/ALCameraViewController (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.170374+00:00, sha 0d8b554fde77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.