16.1. Detecting the Availability of an Accelerometer
Problem
In your program, you want to detect whether the accelerometer hardware is available.
Solution
Use the isAccelerometerAvailable
method of CMMotionManager
to detect the accelerometer
hardware. The isAccelerometerActive
method can also be used to detect whether the accelerometer hardware
is currently sending updates to the program.
Let’s first make sure we have imported the required header files:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h> @interface Detecting_the_Availability_of_an_AccelerometerAppDelegate : UIResponder <UIApplicationDelegate> @property (strong, nonatomic) UIWindow *window; @end
Next, go on to detect the availability of accelerometer in the implementation file of our app delegate:
- (BOOL) application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{ CMMotionManager *motionManager = [[CMMotionManager alloc] init]; if ([motionManager isAccelerometerAvailable]){ NSLog(@"Accelerometer is available."); } else{ NSLog(@"Accelerometer is not available."); } if ([motionManager isAccelerometerActive]){ NSLog(@"Accelerometer is active."); } else { NSLog(@"Accelerometer is not active."); } self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame: [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]]; self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; [self.window makeKeyAndVisible]; return YES; }
Accelerometer hardware might be available on the iOS device running your program. This, however, does not ...
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