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.