To a developer, however, there are a number of changes, notably in the area of the camera.

Specifically, UIImagePickerController properties cameraViewTransform and cameraOverlayView allow the kinds of things some clever people have hacked until now. That is, things like using a custom overlay on top of the camera view to make it look like it’s actually part of your app, or adding a kind of zoom functionality.

All of which puts me in a bit of a quandary. Do I bother implementing these things, slowing down development on my humble little app still further? Or do I press on with things?

I think I’ll take the latter course. Trying to work out the oddities of the iPhone’s camera has been an uphill struggle for a first app. In particular I’ve found it hard to understand why a camera image gets processed in a different way from a gallery image, so it gets flipped round by 90 degrees. It’s just weird.

So adding in yet more functionality right now seems overkill. I’d rather keep things simple.