How do I save a captured video directly to Firebase vs locally? - swift

Question

I built an app that uses a custom camera to record video and take photos. I'm successfully saving the photos to Firebase Storage, but I can't figure out how to access the video to save it there as well.
Here's my code:
recordViewController
func setupCaptureSession() {
captureSession.sessionPreset = AVCaptureSession.Preset.high
}
func setupDevice() {
let deviceDiscoverySession = AVCaptureDevice.DiscoverySession(deviceTypes: [AVCaptureDevice.DeviceType.builtInWideAngleCamera], mediaType: AVMediaType.video, position: AVCaptureDevice.Position.unspecified)
let devices = deviceDiscoverySession.devices
for device in devices {
if device.position == AVCaptureDevice.Position.back {
backCamera = device
} else if device.position == AVCaptureDevice.Position.front {
frontCamera = device
}
}
currentCamera = backCamera
}
func setupInputOutput() {
do {
let captureDeviceInput = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: currentCamera!)
captureSession.addInput(captureDeviceInput)
videoFileOutput = AVCaptureMovieFileOutput()
captureSession.addOutput(videoFileOutput!)
} catch {
print(error)
}
}
func setupPreviewLayer() {
cameraPreviewLayer = AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer(session: captureSession)
cameraPreviewLayer?.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspectFill
cameraPreviewLayer?.connection?.videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientation.portrait
cameraPreviewLayer?.frame = self.view.frame
self.view.layer.insertSublayer(cameraPreviewLayer!, at: 0)
}
func startRunningCaptureSession() {
captureSession.startRunning()
}
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "playVideo" {
let videoPlayerViewController = segue.destination as! AVPlayerViewController
let videoFileURL = sender as! URL
videoPlayerViewController.player = AVPlayer(url: videoFileURL)
}
}
// MARK: - AVCaptureFileOutputRecordingDelegate methods
func fileOutput(_ output: AVCaptureFileOutput, didFinishRecordingTo outputFileURL: URL, from connections: [AVCaptureConnection], error: Error?) {
if error != nil {
print(error)
return
}
performSegue(withIdentifier: "playVideo", sender: outputFileURL)
}
// Actions
#IBAction func recordButtonTapped(_ sender: Any) {
if !isRecording {
isRecording = true
let outputPath = NSTemporaryDirectory() + "output.mov"
let outputFileURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: outputPath)
videoFileOutput?.startRecording(to: outputFileURL, recordingDelegate: self)
recordButton.isSelected = true
} else {
isRecording = false
recordButton.isSelected = false
recordButton.layer.removeAllAnimations()
videoFileOutput?.stopRecording()
}
}
Once the video has been recorded, it currently saves it locally to a temporary location. I'm not versed in how to find the current location path and changing it the Firebase Storage path.