High Level Anatomy of a Camera Capturing Session

I used the following tutorial series from Apple on ‘Capturing and Displaying Photos’. They’re great. Just that it took me a bit to be able to piece together how components from AVFoundation work together. Working with AVFoundation isn’t really the kind where you read documentation and then can piece things together. It’s complicated. You might understand an individual step, but won’t understand when it should be done. There’s just too many components and while it’s not low-level, it’s certainly a different kind of iOS....

August 2, 2025 · 5 min