Chapter 10. Positioning: accelerometers, location, and the compass
This chapter covers
- Sensing gravity
- Gauging movement
- Determining location and orientation
- Using Core Location
When we first introduced the iPhone and iPad, we highlighted a number of its unique features. Among them were three components that allow the device to figure out precisely where it is in space: a trio of accelerometers, which give it the ability to sense motion in three dimensions; a locational device (using either GPS or faux GPS), which lets it figure out where in the world it is; and a compass to figure out which direction it’s facing.
Other than accessing some basic orientation information, we haven’t done much with these features. We’ll now dive into these ...
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