Mccune, B: Learning AV Foundation

Preface xiii Part I: AV Foundation Essentials 1 Chapter 1: Getting Started with AV Foundation 3 What Is AV Foundation? 3 Where Does AV Foundation Fit? 4 Decomposing AV Foundation 6 Understanding Digital Media 7 Digital Media Compression 13 Container Formats 18 Hello AV Foundation 19 Summary 23 Challenge 24 Chapter 2: Playing and Recording Audio 25 Mac and iOS Audio Environments 25 Understanding Audio Sessions 26 Audio Playback with AVAudioPlayer 28 Building an Audio Looper 30 Configuring the Audio Session 34 Handling Interruptions 36 Responding to Route Changes 40 Audio Recording with AVAudioRecorder 42 Building a Voice Memo App 45 Enabling Audio Metering 52 Summary 57 Chapter 3: Working with Assets and Metadata 59 Understanding Assets 59 Creating an Asset 60 Asynchronous Loading 63 Media Metadata 65 Working with Metadata 70 Building the MetaManager App 76 Saving Metadata 98 Summary 101 Challenge 101 Chapter 4: Playing Video 103 Playback Overview 103 Playback Recipe 107 Working with Time 109 Building a Video Player 110 Time Observation 118 Creating a Visual Scrubber 124 Showing Subtitles 129 Airplay 133 Summary 136 Challenge 136 Chapter 5: Using AV Kit 137 AV Kit for iOS 137 AV Kit for Mac OS X 140 First Steps 140 Control Styles 144 Going Further 147 Working with Chapters 151 Enabling Trimming 157 Exporting 159 Movie Modernization 161 Summary 165 Challenge 166 Part II: Media Capture 167 Chapter 6: Capturing Media 169 Capture Overview 169 Simple Recipe 174 Building a Camera App 175 Summary 208 Challenge 208 Chapter 7: Using Advanced Capture Features 209 Video Zooming 209 Face Detection 216 Machine-Readable Code Detection 228 Using High Frame Rate Capture 241 Processing Video 247 Understanding CMSampleBuffer 249 Summary 257 Challenge 258 Chapter 8: Reading and Writing Media 259 Overview 259 Building an Audio Waveform View 265 Advanced Capture Recording 276 Summary 293 Challenge 293 Part III: Media Creation and Editing 295 Chapter 9: Composing and Editing Media 297

Bob McCune is an iOS developer and instructor from Minnesota. He started developing for the Mac in 2007 and then switched to iOS when the first iPhone SDK was released in 2008. He is the owner of TapHarmonic, LLC, a small iOS consulting and training company based out of MN. Bob also founded the MN chapter of CocoaHeads in the spring of 2008 and remains the group leader to this day. Bob and his wife, Linda, have two amazing children who are who are growing up faster than he would like. He is incredibly blessed to have such a loving and supportive family.