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.