notes from a developer, tutorials, how-to, ideas
Today I want to tell you what happened on my latest iOS game released, “Insects Hunter – AR Shooter“… and why the insects?
Before starting, download it from App Store (it’s free for a couple of months!
I started the development of this simple game during the quarantine, the scope was to kill all the COVID-19 viruses that appear around your photo-camera.
Continue reading “Insects Hunter – AR shooter for iOS”I have bought a new weight scale that works with or without a smartphone.
There is a proprietary app, called Laica Body Touch.
Problem with this app are:
Continue reading “Hacking “Laica Body Touch” weight scale with iOS”
I want to share a simple how-to, used to get the GPS position of an iOS user with the app completely closed, in the background, and in the foreground without using any useless workaround like idle timer and background operations…
We discuss about the GEO-fence tecnique. You can read more on Apple reference:
Continue reading “Track GPS position with iOS app killed”Today I want to present a small project with a lot of potentialities, an animated newspaper.
Using the ARKit framework from Apple, I’ll show you how to play a video while passing on the newspaper pages with your camera!
The scope of this project is to overlap a defined image on the newspaper with a video, for a better experience while reading the news.
Continue reading “How to make (and read) an animated newspaper”A draft of SpeechManager.swift, that recognize the spoken text using Siri.
It use the Apple Speech framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech):
Continue reading “Swift – Recognize spoken text using Siri”Perform speech recognition on live or prerecorded audio, receive transcriptions, alternative interpretations, and confidence levels of the results.
Draw a grid on the floor using augmented reality and eventually place objects on it.
Today a tutorial about augmented reality, in particular the use of the new Apple framework, ARKit, to measure distances between two points in a 3D virtual space.
Starting from iOS 12, Apple introduces a new CLActivityType in the Core Location framework.
It is a new way to track the GPS position when you’re flighting!
Continue reading “Swift – Use GPS during a flight with .airborne”Today a post about the new Apple framework – CoreML – a machine learning framework to use your trained data-model inside iOS apps.
https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/core-ml/
Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml
The example of today is about machine learning to identify the mood of a collection of tweets (#apple, @apple, #covid-19, #love, etc…).
