Images, Photos and Videos in iOS

Learn how to incorporate images, video and audio into your iOS applications. After reading this guide, you will know how to display images, how to create the app's icons and launching screen, how to play video and audio, how to manage the user's Photos Library, how to record video and audio from the camera and the microphone, and how to apply filters with Core Image.

Table of Contents

IMAGES
Using Images
Images and Image Views
Assets Catalog
Core Image

MEDIA
Video
Asset
Player Item
Player
Player Layer
Time
Video Player
AVKit Framework
Audio
Audio Player Delegate
Recording
User Media
Media Controller
Query Media
Image Picker Controller
Camera
Photo Library
Adapting the Controller
Storing Pictures
Modifying Pictures
Custom Controllers
Camera
Photos
Videos

QUICK REFERENCE
UIImage
UIImageView
CIImage
CIContext
CIFilter
AVURLAsset
AVPlayerItem
AVPlayer
AVPlayerLayer
CMTime
AVQueuePlayer
AVAudioPlayer
AVAudioPlayerDelegate
AVAudioRecorder
AVAudioRecorderDelegate
AVAudioSession
MPMediaPickerController
MPMediaPickerControllerDelegate
MPMediaItemCollection
MPMediaItem
MPMediaQuery
MPMediaPropertyPredicate
UIImagePickerController
UIImagePickerControllerDelegate
Functions
AVCaptureDevice
AVCaptureDeviceInput
AVCapturePhotoCaptureDelegate
AVCaptureSession
AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer
AVCaptureConnection
AVCapturePhotoOutput
AVCapturePhotoSettings
AVCapturePhoto
PHAsset
PHImageManager
PHPhotoLibrary

This guide assumes that you have a basic knowledge of app development, Xcode, and the Swift language. You should also know how to create and display Collection Views. If you don't know how to program in Swift, how to work with Collection Views, or how to create an application with Xcode, download our guides Introduction to Swift, Table Views and Collection Views, and Interface Builder. For a complete course on app development for iOS, read our book iOS Apps for Masterminds.

This guide is a collection of excerpts from the book iOS Apps for Masterminds. The information included in this guide will help you understand a particular aspect of app development in iOS, but it will not teach you everything you need to know to develop an app for Apple devices. If you need a complete course on app development for iOS, read our book iOS Apps for Masterminds. For more information, visit our website at www.formasterminds.com.