Core Audio User-Space Driver Examples

Last Revision:	Version 1.0.1, 2013-10-04 Fix to show the nominal sample rate and transport type in AMS. (Full Revision History)
Build Requirements:	OS X 10.9 or later, Xcode 5.0 & 10.9 SDK or later
Runtime Requirements:	OS X 10.9 or later

This project has two examples of writing user land audio drivers that conform to the plug-in API in <CoreAudio/AudioServerPlugIn.h>. Each example is documented with commentary inline with the code.

The first example, NullAudio, creates a driver that supports single audio device. Written in C, this example shows what it takes to write a drive that achieves the bare minimum of support while still being fully functional as an AudioDevice.

The second example, SimpleAudio, is a more functional driver. Written in C++, this driver is written for a dynamic environment where it has to support potentially many instances of the same device getting plugged into the system. This example also shows how a user-land driver interacts with hardware that requires a kernel extension to talk to. As such, it shows dealing with IOKit matching notifications as well as dealing with calls into the IOKit driver.

Note: An earlier version of this sample was called "User-Space Driver Reference". This updated version for OS X 10.9 and later contains bug fixes and the Null driver has added support for Audio Boxes.