The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS

apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They

also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key
technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push
notifications and many high-level system services.
• High-Level features of Cocoa touch layers are AirDrop, Multitasking,
Auto Layout,Storyboards and Local Notifications And Apple Push
Notification Service.
• Cocoa touch layer contains following frameworks for iPhone app
development:
a. UIKit framework
b. Map kit framework
c. Push notification service.
d. Message UI framework noise
e. Address book UI framework
f. Game kit framework
g. iAd framework
h. Event kit UI framework
i. Accounts framework
j. Twitter framework
• The Media layer contains the graphics, audio and video
technologies you use to implement multimedia experiences in your
apps. The technologies in this layer make it easy for you to build apps
that look and sound great.
Media Layer
• The role of the Media layer is to provide iOS with audio, video,
animation and graphics
capabilities.
• As with the other layers comprising the iOS stack, the media layer
comprises a number of
frameworks which may be utilized when developing iPhone apps.
• The technologies in this layer make it easy for sound great.
a. Graphics technologies
b. Audio technologies
c. Video technologies
d. AirPlay.
• Media layer contains following frameworks:

1. Core video framework: This framework provides buffering support

for the AMI Ista Core media framework. Whilst this may be utilized by
application developers it is typically not necessary to use this
framework.
2. Core text framework: The iOS core text framework is a C-based
API designed to ease the handling of advanced text layout and font
rendering requirements.
3. Image I/O framework: The Image I/O framework, the purpose of
which is to facilitate the importing and exporting of image data and
image metadata, was introduced in iOS 4. The framework supports a
wide range of image formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF and GIF.
4. Assets library framework: The assets library provides a mechanism
for locating and retrieving video and photo files located on the
iPhone device. In addition to accessing existing images and videos,
this framework also allows Simon new photos and videos to be saved
to the standard device photo album.
5. Core graphics framework: The iOS core graphics framework
provides a lightweight two dimensional rendering engine. Features of
this framework include PDF document creation and presentation,
vector based drawing, transparent layers, path based drawing, anti-
aliased rendering, color manipulation and management, image
rendering and gradients.
6. Core image framework: A new framework introduced with iOS 5
providing a set of video and image filtering and manipulation
capabilities for application developers.
7. Quartz core framework: The purpose of the Quartz Core
framework is to provide animation capabilities on the iPhone. It
provides the foundation for the majority of the visual effects and
animation used by the UIKit framework and provides an Objective-C
based programming interface for creation of specialized animation
within iPhone apps.
8. OpenGL ES framework: For many years the industry standard for
high performance 2D and 3D graphics drawing has been OpenGL.
OpenGL for Embedded Systems (ES) is a lightweight version of the full
OpenGL specification designed specifically for smaller devices such as
the iPhone.
9. GLKit framework: The GLKit framework is an Objective-C based
API designed to ease the task of creating OpenGL ES based
applications.
10. NewsstandKit framework: The Newsstand application is a new
feature of iOS 5 and is intended as a central location for users to gain
access to newspapers and magazines. The NewsstandKit framework
allows for the development of applications that utilize this new
service.
11. iOS audio support: iOS is capable of supporting audio in AAC,
Apple orolove Lossless (ALAC), A-law, IMA/ADPCM, Linear PCM, u-
law, DVI/Intel IMA ADPCM, Microsoft GSM 6.10 and AES3-2003
formats through the support provided by the following frameworks.
12. AV foundation framework: An Objective-C based framework
designed to allow the playback, recording and management of audio
content.
Core Services Layer
• The Core Services layer contains fundamental system services for
apps.
• Key among these services are the core foundation and foundation
frameworks, which define
the basic types that all apps use.
• This layer also contains individual technologies to support features
such as location, iCloud,
social media and networking.
Features:
1. Peer-to-Peer services
2. iCloud storage
3. Automatic reference counting
4. Block objects
5. Grand central dispatch
6. In-App purchase
7. SQLite
8. XML support
9. File-sharing support, data protection.
It consists of the following frameworks:
•Address book framework: This provides programmatic access to the
iPhone Address Book contact database allowing applications to
retrieve and modify contact entries.
• CFNetwork framework: The CFNetwork framework provides a C-
based interface to the TCP/IP networking protocol stack and low level
access to BSD sockets. This enables application code to be written
that works with HTTP, FTP and domain name servers and to establish
secure and encrypted connections using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or
Transport Layer Security (TLS).
• Core Data Framework: This framework is provided to ease the
creation of data modelling and storage in Model-View-Controller
(MVC) based applications. Use of the Core Data framework
significantly reduces the amount of code that needs to be written to
perform common tasks when working with structured data within an
application.
• Core foundation framework: The core foundation framework is a
C-based Framework which provides basic functionality such as data
types, string manipulation, raw block data management, URL
manipulation, threads and run loops, date and times, basic XML
manipulation and port and socket anro communication.
• The core media framework is the lower level foundation upon
which the AV foundation layer is built.
• Core telephony framework: The iOS core telephony framework is
provided to allow applications to interrogate the device for
information about the current cell phone service provider and to
receive notification of telephony related events.
• EventKit framework: An API designed to provide applications with
access to the calendar and alarms on the device.
• Most applications will use iCloud document storage to share
documents from a user's iCloud account. This is the feature that
users think of when they think of iCloud storage. A user cares about
whether documents are shared across devices and can see and
manage those documents from a given device.
• Data protection allows applications that work with sensitive user
data to take advantage of the built-in encryption available on some
devices.
• When your application designates a specific file as protected, the
system stores that file on-disk in an encrypted format. While the
device is locked, the contents of the file are inaccessible to both your
application and to any potential intruders.
• However, when the device is unlocked by the user, a decryption key
is created to allow your application to access the file.