Chapter 12: Improving Apps with Location Services
All iOS devices come with a huge variety of chips and sensors that can be used to enhance the user experience. Augmented reality applications make heavy use of sensors such as the gyroscope, accelerometer, and camera. These sensors are great if you want to grab a picture or want to know how a device is moving. Other apps require different data, such as the user's GPS location at a given time. In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Core Location framework to do just that.
Core Location is a framework that allows developers to gain access to a user's current location, but it also allows developers to track whether a user has entered or exited a specific area, or even to monitor a user's ...
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