I have a AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayerin my app that works well and is showing the same preview video as the camera app. I would like to implement the 2x zoom functionality of the camera app. How do I do this?
Basically I want my previewlayer to change the video feed to same scale as what you see in the camera app when you tap on the 1x icon to change it to 2x.
setting up preview layer
func startSession(){
captureSession = AVCaptureSession()
captureSession?.sessionPreset = AVCaptureSessionPresetPhoto
let backCamera = AVCaptureDevice.defaultDevice(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo)
// Catch error using the do catch block
do {
let input = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: backCamera)
if (captureSession?.canAddInput(input) != nil){
captureSession?.addInput(input)
// Setup the preview layer
previewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
previewLayer?.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill
previewLayer?.connection.videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation.portrait
tempImageView.layer.addSublayer(previewLayer!)
captureSession?.startRunning()
// Set up AVCaptureVideoDataOutput
let dataOutput = AVCaptureVideoDataOutput()
dataOutput.videoSettings = [(kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey as NSString) : NSNumber(value: kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA as UInt32)]
dataOutput.alwaysDiscardsLateVideoFrames = true
if (captureSession?.canAddOutput(dataOutput) == true) {
captureSession?.addOutput(dataOutput)
}
let queue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.bigbob.videoQueue")
dataOutput.setSampleBufferDelegate(self, queue: queue)
}
} catch _ {
print("Error setting up camera!")
}
Set the videoZoomFactor
of your AVCaptureDevice.defaultDevice
and the preview layer's zoom will follow suit. Note Swift 4 it is now called AVCaptureDevice.default
.
do {
try backCamera?.lockForConfiguration()
let zoomFactor:CGFloat = 2
backCamera?.videoZoomFactor = zoomFactor
backCamera?.unlockForConfiguration()
} catch {
//Catch error from lockForConfiguration
}