Hour 19. Working with Rich Media

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to play full-motion video from local or remote (streaming) files

• Ways of recording and playing back audio files on your iDevice

• How to access the built-in music library from within your applications

• How to display and access images from the built-in photo library or camera

• The use of Core Image filters to easily manipulate images

• Methods of retrieving and displaying information about currently playing media items

Each year, new iPads and iPhones come out, and each year I find myself standing in line to snatch them up. Is it the new amazing features? Not so much. In fact, my primary motivation is to keep expanding my storage space to keep up with an ever-growing media library. Sounds, podcasts, movies, TV shows—I keep them all on my iDevices. When the original 8GB iPhone came out, I assumed that I’d never run out of space. Today, I’ve just started having to cut back on my sync list to fit everything under 64GB.