Chapter    1

Welcome to iOS Media App Development

What Is the Purpose of This Book?

This book is an in-depth guide to iOS media app development, targeted at beginning- to intermediate-level iOS developers. In this book, you will learn how to build apps that take advantage of iOS’s programming interfaces, or APIs, for capturing, displaying, and manipulating still images (photos), videos, and audio resources. The last part of the book covers new functionality, including the Swift programming language, which Apple introduced in iOS 8.

In presenting these topics, I have taken some cues from tutorial-based guides, which introduce you to topics by providing you with code snippets. However, this book goes deeper than typical tutorials by introducing ...

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