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Chapter 12. Accessing devices and sensors

If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Smartphones and tablets owe much of their success to the high quality of their sensors and internal devices. If you go back to the early days of the iPhone, you may recall how astonished people were with the now-mundane Flashlight application. That was essentially a toy app—though it had some practical use. The assortment of devices and sensors you find on modern devices, such as a tablet equipped with Microsoft Windows 8, is so rich as to enable developers to think and build completely new types of applications.

As a Windows ...