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

Swift 3

func switchCamera() {
        session?.beginConfiguration()
        let currentInput = session?.inputs.first as? AVCaptureDeviceInput
        session?.removeInput(currentInput)

        let newCameraDevice = currentInput?.device.position == .back ? getCamera(with: .front) : getCamera(with: .back)
        let newVideoInput = try? AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: newCameraDevice)
        session?.addInput(newVideoInput)
        session?.commitConfiguration()
    }

// MARK: - Private
extension CameraService {
    func getCamera(with position: AVCaptureDevicePosition) -> AVCaptureDevice? {
        guard let devices = AVCaptureDevice.devices(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo) as? [AVCaptureDevice] else {
            return nil
        }

        return devices.filter {
            $0.position == position
        }.first
    }
}

Swift 4

You can check full implementation in this gist