20. Working with Images and Filters
Images and image handling are central to many iOS apps. At a basic level, images are a necessary part of customizing the user interface, from custom view backgrounds to custom buttons and view elements. Beyond that, iOS 6 added sophisticated support for customizing user-provided images with the Core Image library. Previous to iOS 6, doing image manipulations required custom image-handling code using Quartz or custom C libraries. With the addition of Core Image, many complex image-editing functions demonstrated by successful apps, like Instagram, can now be handled by iOS with minimal effort.
This chapter describes basic image handling: how to load and display an image, how to handle images on devices with different ...
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