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Basic Sensors in iOS
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Basic Sensors in iOS

by Alasdair Allan
July 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
108 pages
2h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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What’s In This Book?

Chapter 1, The Hardware

This chapter summarizes the available sensors on the iPhone and iPad platforms and how they have, or could be, used in applications. It talks about the differences between the hardware platforms.

Chapter 2, Using the Camera

Walkthrough of how to use the iPhone’s camera for still and video. How to create video thumbnails and customise video.

Chapter 3, Using Audio

Walkthrough of how to playback iPod media, as well as how to play and record audio on your device.

Chapter 4, Using the Accelerometer

Walkthrough of how to use the accelerometer, discussion of what is implied with respect to the orientation of the device by the raw readings.

Chapter 5, Using the Magnetometer

Walkthrough of how to use the magnetometer, discussion of combining the magnetometer and accelerometer to get the yaw, pitch and roll of the device.

Chapter 6, Using Core Motion

This paragraph discusses the new Core Motion framework; this new framework allows your application to receive motion data from both the accelerometer and (on the latest generation of devices) the gyroscope.

Chapter 7, Going Further

Provides a collection of pointers to more advanced material on the topics we covered in the book, and material covering some of those topics that we didn’t manage to talk about in this book.

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