Do you know that modern smartphones provide their users with performance that can be compared to the performance of desktops that were available on the market some time ago? It is really amazing that such small devices have huge potential, which allows developers to prepare various multimedia applications. For this reason, you can enhance your projects, even for smartphones and tablets, with high-quality photos, movies, images from the camera, or speech recognition features!
In this chapter, you will find a set of recipes regarding developing applications with various multimedia content.
To begin with, you will see how to play a movie clip and listen to an audio file, as well as present a collection of photos directly in the application. Then, the subject of modifying images is taken into account, with examples of how to flip an image or convert it into a grayscale photo. What is more, pickers are shown as a way of choosing a file that should be opened or a location where a file...