About Audio and Video

Whether multimedia features are central or incidental to your application, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users expect high quality. When presenting video content, take advantage of the device’s high-resolution screen and high frame rates. When designing the audio portion of your application, keep in mind that compelling sound adds immeasurably to a user’s overall experience.

You can take advantage of the iOS multimedia frameworks for adding features like:

In iOS 4.0 and later, the AV Foundation framework gives you fine-grained control over inspecting, editing, and presenting audio-visual assets.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following chapters: