Switch cameras with avcapturesession

Question

Using this tutorial here: http://www.musicalgeometry.com/?p=1297 I have created a custom overlay and image capture with AVCaptureSession.

I am attemptin

Answer 1

Based on previous answers I made my own version with some validations and one specific change, the current camera input might not be the first object of the capture session's inputs, so I changed this:

//Remove existing input
AVCaptureInput* currentCameraInput = [self.captureSession.inputs objectAtIndex:0];
[self.captureSession removeInput:currentCameraInput];

To this (removing all video type inputs):

for (AVCaptureDeviceInput *input in self.captureSession.inputs) {
    if ([input.device hasMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo]) {
        [self.captureSession removeInput:input];
        break;
    }
}

Here's the entire code:

if (!self.captureSession) return;

[self.captureSession beginConfiguration];

AVCaptureDeviceInput *currentCameraInput;

// Remove current (video) input
for (AVCaptureDeviceInput *input in self.captureSession.inputs) {
    if ([input.device hasMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo]) {
        [self.captureSession removeInput:input];

        currentCameraInput = input;
        break;
    }
}

if (!currentCameraInput) return;

// Switch device position
AVCaptureDevicePosition captureDevicePosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionUnspecified;
if (currentCameraInput.device.position == AVCaptureDevicePositionBack) {
    captureDevicePosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionFront;
} else {
    captureDevicePosition = AVCaptureDevicePositionBack;
}

// Select new camera
AVCaptureDevice *newCamera;
NSArray *devices = [AVCaptureDevice devicesWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];

for (AVCaptureDevice *captureDevice in devices) {
    if (captureDevice.position == captureDevicePosition) {
        newCamera = captureDevice;
    }
}

if (!newCamera) return;

// Add new camera input
NSError *error;
AVCaptureDeviceInput *newVideoInput = [[AVCaptureDeviceInput alloc] initWithDevice:newCamera error:&error];
if (!error && [self.captureSession canAddInput:newVideoInput]) {
    [self.captureSession addInput:newVideoInput];
}

[self.captureSession commitConfiguration];