In addition to playing existing media, you can also make apps that allow users to create their own content. In this section, you will learn how you can use a built-in component to enable users to take a picture. You will also learn how you can use a raw video feed to record a video. If you want to follow along with the samples in this section, make sure to grab the starter project for Captured from this chapter's code bundle.
The starter project contains a couple of view controllers and some connected outlets and actions. Note that there is a UIViewController extension in the project, too. This extension includes a helper method that makes displaying an alert to the user a little bit simpler. This extension will be used to show an alert that informs the user when their photo or video is stored to the camera roll.
Since a user's camera and photo library are considered very privacy-sensitive, you need to make sure that you add the following privacy-related...