In one of my previous posts, I talked about how to create a temperature sensor using an Arduino and a BLE breakout circuit, and how to read that data from your iOS app. You can read more about it here: Creating a Temperature Sensor for iOS Using BLE and Arduino. In… Read more »
Today we’ll create something cool, a temperature sensor and an iOS app that connects to it. For this project, we’ll be using an Arduino with a BLE breakout circuit. On the iOS side, we’ll be using CoreBluetooth. Don’t worry if some of these things are unfamiliar to you, I’ll try to… Read more »
We all hate entering passwords on our devices, you have to remember the right password, type it in… It’s a drag. Well, since iPhone 5S we’ve got a fingerprint sensor, also called Touch ID. We would normally use it to unlock the device and/or to verify your account just before you… Read more »
With iPhone 6s came the 3D touch, and with it we got a few more options to interact with the users. In this short blog post we’ll examine one of those options called ‘Application Shortcuts’, or sometimes called ‘Home Screen Quick Actions’, we’ll call them application shortcuts, because it’s shorter…. Read more »
You all heard of Siri 🙂 It’s an online Voice Command and Text-To-Speech engine. Recently I ran into a great framework for offline voice command and text to speech, and it works great. It’s called OpenEars and you can read more about it on that link. I wanted to try it… Read more »
Using iBeacon is pretty straight forward, what I wanted to do is use the service in the background, and send a request to the server every time a user enters/exits a region. I’ll explain how I did it in this small tutorial. iBeacon iBeacon is a location technology developed by Apple…. Read more »
Creating a grayscale image is not a problem in iOS, but I wanted to be able to animate an image view from grayscale to full color. It turned out to be a pretty simple operation, all you have to do is create a grayscale image, and fade-in the original image…. Read more »
Google Maps for iOS can’t show all Info Windows (unlike the Android version). But there’s an easy way around this limitation. All you have to do is render your Info Window along with your pin icon as an image, and set that image as a pin icon. Google Maps will… Read more »
