
Basic Sensors in iOS
Programming the Accelerometer, Gyroscope, and More
Alasdair Allan(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
Published on 30. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-1-4493-0846-9 (ISBN)
Description
Modern mobile platforms, such as Apple's iPhone and iPad, come with a growing range of sensors; GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes. This book guides you through how to make use of these sensors, giving you the necessary tools and experience to develop applications that makes best use of the hardware.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
201 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-0846-9 (9781449308469)
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Person
Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, where he is building an autonomous, distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. He also runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud-based services and distributed sensor networks.
Content
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Hardware
- Chapter 2: Using the Camera
- Chapter 3: Using Audio
- Chapter 4: Using the Accelerometer
- Chapter 5: Using the Magnetometer
- Chapter 6: Using Core Motion
- Chapter 7: Going Further
- Colophon