Titanium iOS SDK hack to allow picking animated GIFs from Camera Roll

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// Add before the sendPickerSuccess in MediaModule.m 
// ~ line 2104

// Provides event.gifmedia with the success event if a GIF is picked as a TiBlob. 
// If so, the event.media is the first frame as a PNG. 

// Kosso
    // See if it's a GIF. Use the referenceURL
    NSURL *referenceURL = [editingInfo objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL];
    NSString *_mime = [Mimetypes mimeTypeForExtension:[referenceURL path]];
    if ([_mime isEqualToString:@"image/gif"]) {
    
        PHAsset * asset = [[PHAsset fetchAssetsWithALAssetURLs:@[referenceURL] options:nil] lastObject];
        if (asset) {
            PHImageRequestOptions *options = [[PHImageRequestOptions alloc] init];
            options.synchronous = YES;
            options.networkAccessAllowed = NO;
            options.deliveryMode = PHImageRequestOptionsDeliveryModeHighQualityFormat;
            [[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestImageDataForAsset:asset options:options resultHandler:^(NSData * _Nullable imageData, NSString * _Nullable dataUTI, UIImageOrientation orientation, NSDictionary * _Nullable info) {
                NSNumber * isError = [info objectForKey:PHImageErrorKey];
                NSNumber * isCloud = [info objectForKey:PHImageResultIsInCloudKey];
                if ([isError boolValue] || [isCloud boolValue] || ! imageData) {
                    // fail
                } else {
                    // success, data is in imageData
                    // NSLog(@"[INFO] GOT THE GIF!! %d", imageData.length);
                    TiBlob *gifblob = [[[TiBlob alloc] initWithData:imageData mimetype:@"image/gif"] autorelease];
                    [dictionary setObject:gifblob forKey:@"gifmedia"];
                    imageData = nil;
                    
                }
            }];
        }
        
    }
    _mime = nil;
    // end GIF
    
    [self sendPickerSuccess:dictionary];

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