Sound Format Conversion in iPhone

Since iPhone supports only following data formats for audion files:

* linear PCM
* MA4 (IMA/ADPCM)
* µLaw
* aLaw

You may use the afconvert tool to convert sounds. For example, to convert the 16-bit linear PCM system sound Submarine.aiff to IMA4 audio in a CAF file, use the following command in the Terminal application:

afconvert /System/Library/Sounds/Submarine.aiff ~/Desktop/sub.caf -d ima4 -f caff -v

You can inspect a sound to determine its data format by opening it in QuickTime Player and choosing Show Movie Inspector from the Movie menu.

Getting a screenshot of any View Programmatically

Place the code shown here in the main file of your view controller

-(IBAction)captureScreen:(id)sender
{
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(foobar.frame.size);
[self.view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(viewImage, nil, nil, nil);
}

Here foobar is considered the UIView subclass which has the screen to be captured in the screenshot.

Save UIImage Object as a PNG or JPEG File

UIKit includes two C functions, UIImageJPEGRepresentation and UIImagePNGRepresentation which will return an NSData object that represents an image in JPEG or PNG format, respectively. With this information in hand, you can then use the writeToFile method of the NSData object to write the image data to a specified path.

// Create paths to output images
NSString *pngPath = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents/TestImage.png"];
NSString *jpgPath = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents/TestImage.jpg"];

// Write a UIImage to JPEG with minimum compression (best quality)
// The value 'image' must be a UIImage object
// The value '1.0' represents image compression quality as value from 0.0 to 1.0
[UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0) writeToFile:jpgPath atomically:YES];

// Write image to PNG
[UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) writeToFile:pngPath atomically:YES];

// Let's check to see if files were successfully written...

// Create file manager
NSError *error;
NSFileManager *fileMgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

// Point to Document directory
NSString *documentsDirectory = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];

// Write out the contents of home directory to console
NSLog(@"Documents directory: %@", [fileMgr contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:documentsDirectory error:&error]);

One last note, this application will only run on an actual device as the simulator does not have camera support.