How to get front camera, back camera and audio with AVCaptureDeviceDiscoverySession

Question

Before iOS 10 came out I was using the following code to get the video and audio capture for my video recorder:

 for device in AVCaptureDevice.devices()
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Answer 1

Swift 4 (xCode 10.1)

This is what worked for me in the latest version of Swift. I did not see this answer, and it took me a while to suss out so here is how to get the front facing camera.

 if let device = AVCaptureDevice.defaultDevice(withDeviceType: .builtInWideAngleCamera , mediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo, position: .front)  {
    //Do the camera thing here..
}