title: UIImagePickerController Subview Alternative
body: <p>I am looking to integrate the ability to select images from the built in library into an iOS app.</p>
  
  <p>UIImagePickerController seems like the obvious choice.
  However, it only works as a modal view controller. For design reasons, the image selection in this app needs to be part of an UIViewController itself.</p>
  
  <p>After some research on the web and searching the StackOverflow archives, it seems I will need to implement my own Image Picker from scratch using <code>ALAssetsLibrary</code>to access the images stored on the device. However this is quite a task (if done well).</p>
  
  <p>Thus my questions are:</p>
  
  <p>1) Is there already an existing library or class (or would someone be willing to share his/her existing code) for this purpose?</p>
  
  <p>2) Alternatively, is there a way to extend the UIImagePickerController to add more interface elements to it?</p>