One of the most important features of today's smartphones and tablets is their ability to capture and manage multimedia resources. Be it photos, videos, or audio, an app targeted at these devices that can handle multimedia effectively is very important.
In this chapter, we will see how to manage media stored on the device. We will also learn how to use the device's multimedia capturing devices (a camera and microphone) to capture content and create an app that will provide a rich experience to the user.
More specifically, we will discuss the following topics:
UIImagePickerController: This is a controller that provides access to the saved photos and videos on the device through a user interface, but also a camera interface for capturing photos through the device's camera hardware.MPMoviePlayerController: This is a controller that allows us to play and stream video files.MPMediaPickerController: This is the default user interface to access the saved content managed by the native...