Fundamentals of iOS Sensor Integration

This book covers the following topics: 1. Sensor Hardware Overview - Differences between iPhone and iPad, device orientation, detecting hardware variations, camera, audio input, GPS, magnetometer, required hardware capabilities, persistent WiFi, and background modes. 2. Camera Utilization - Hardware features, capturing stills and video, video thumbnails with UIImagePicker and AVFoundation, saving media to the photo album, and video customization. 3. Audio Functionality - Media playback, recording, and playing audio. 4. Accelerometer Usage - Understanding the accelerometer, developing accelerometer applications, determining device orientation, receiving notifications for orientation changes, and detecting shaking. 5. Magnetometer Application - Overview of the magnetometer, writing a magnetometer application, determining heading in landscape mode, and measuring magnetic fields. 6. Core Motion Framework - Retrieving and pushing motion data, accessing the gyroscope, measuring and comparing device motion. 7. Advanced Topics - iPhone SDK, geolocation and maps, third-party SDKs, speech recognition, computer vision, augmented reality, and external accessories.