Chapter 17. Using Media in Your App
lot of the apps that people use every day make use of media in some way. Some apps show photos and videos in a user's feed. Other apps focus on playing audio or video, while there are also apps that allow users to record media and share it with their peers. You can probably name at least a couple of very well known apps that make use of such media in one way or the other.
Because media has such a significant presence in people's daily life, it's good to know how you can integrate media into your own apps. iOS has excellent support for media playback and offers several different ways to create and consume different types of media. Some ways provide less flexibility, but are more straightforward to implement. Others are more complex, but provide significant power to you as a developer.
In this chapter, you will learn about several ways to play and record media on iOS. You will learn how to play and record video, play audio, take pictures, and you'll even learn...