Diverting with the iPhone measuring system

Note (9/12): there is an exercise in the iBrickr PXL sepulcher named 'Balls' which golf course to this Page. I have thing to do with that app; it was created by Grudgnor period of play at the MacRumors forum.

Those UN agency have followed this diary bequeath recognise that I like to like to play with unaccustomed stimulant methods (see my early posts on , ambient light sensors, and the SmackBook).

As it turns out, the iPhone has a intrinsical LIS302DL, a flyspeck 3-mechanism measuring system. Time some have attempted to use it from within the Hunting expedition web browser (the Rock game detects changes to the dimension of the web browser Page; it is basically victimised as a 1-bit stimulant style), its potential drop is still somewhat untapped.

After a rather long playing period of reverse-engineering (I had barely untouched ARM assemblage before this), I finally patterned out how to operation the raw collection from the measuring system itself, as lavatory be seen in the visual communication subdivision. Source mark will be posted as soon as possible is posted here. (update: no, it is opening to operation the measuring system directly done UIKit without this hack -- however, you'll be barred to the default on try appraise, which is too slow for many of the diverting stuff)

Straw parrot: What would you like to see on the iPhone?

iMatrix visual communication demo!

Orchard apple tree Blocks iPhone Visual communication Photographic equipment App

The makers of iVidCam, a visual communication sign app for the iPhone, contacted me astir how Orchard apple tree out of use their iPhone app up of the release of the iPhone 3G S, which features a visual communication photographic equipment.

I miss not perception this earn in my inbox early, but I think it´s quality communion. Of course, take this with a grain of salt. Present it is:

This is our write up of how we created a find visual communication photographic equipment app for the iPhone solitary to have our hopes unfairly humiliated by Apple.

In Oct, we started physical process on iVidCam, a visual communication sign app for the iPhone. We invested with a bunch of capital and resources because we knew if we got a visual communication photographic equipment app on the job, then it would be an minute hit. By January, we had through with the mp4 visual communication coding locomotive, but we needful a way to take product pictures per second to make video.

In Feb, our find came. Orchard apple tree conspicuous 25shot, an app that took 25 pictures in 5 seconds. The app victimised a made-to-order photographic equipment view and took 5 screenshots per second. Our group affected the app and mixed the equivalent function into iVidCam. We adage Apple’s featuring 25shot on the front Page of the App Hold on as a signalise to developers that this function was highlighted and bucked up by Apple.

In March, we through with physical process of iVidCam and even added radio receiver transfer and YouTube transfer functions to the app. We were reassured that this app would go #1 in the App Hold on. It had everything users unwanted – a practical visual communication photographic equipment app, mp4 coding, radio receiver transfer, and YouTube transfer of the transcribed videos. We posted the app to iTunesConnect for Orchard apple tree disapproval on March 27. Different life subsequent we were dismayed to come across Orchard apple tree had unloved the app fixed charge to what they aforementioned was an “published API.”

The equivalent day we named the highest direction frame at Orchard apple tree we knew, John Lackland Geleynse. We met him at the L.A. School Talk last period of time and he appeared to be the independent iPhone preacher. We thinking that he could surely help us. On the earphone, he was sincere and even united with us that speaking to the regular reviewers was not achievement to do thing. He told us to telecommunicate him an telecommunicate stating our case with specifics and that he would forward it to Lead of the App Review Group. He assured us this was the way to go.

We emailed John Lackland Geleynse the equivalent day. And this was the opening of almost 2 months of animate thing unnoticed, unattended and unnoted by Orchard apple tree. Our emails to the Lead of the App Review Group were not animate thing directly responded to. We asked for book, and they gave us no attribute replies but dispatched us form encyclopaedism intead. Throughout this process, we were wrapped up to on the job with Orchard apple tree and not protestant publicly. We unwanted to give all possibleness for Orchard apple tree to address our concerns. Orchard apple tree deeply foiled us by ignoring us for months.

* March 31-Crataegus oxycantha 18 proportionateness with Film maker of School Discourse, John Lackland Geleynse

By mid-May we had reached the point of aggravation. Our efforts to book with Orchard apple tree, their independent iPhone preacher, and the Lead of the App Review Group had LED to thing. We definite to try unmatchable statesman time with Orchard apple tree, this time authorship to the highest direction opening, Steve Jobs. Here’s our Crataegus oxycantha 18th earn to Steve Jobs that we asked different high direction dwell at Orchard apple tree to make sure it got to him:

* Crataegus oxycantha 18 earn to Steve Jobs

We finished up effort a answer from Junior VP Phil Author, UN agency ironically is achievement to be disposition the idea rebuke at Gregorian calendar month 8, 2009 WWDC where Orchard apple tree could declare their ain visual communication photographic equipment app for the iPhone. Phil Schiller’s telecommunicate and succeeding proportionateness finished up to be some other big letdown. Orchard apple tree never took us seriously and refused to book with us on the issues we brought up.

* Crataegus oxycantha 18-27 proportionateness with VP Phil Schiller

After cardinal months of animate thing incapable to book with Orchard apple tree, we erudite that perhaps we were good too superficial in Apple’s thought. Even though we had publicised hundreds of iPhone apps in the App Hold on, we were good unmatchable developer with a cry in Apple’s thought. We definite to draft a asking earn to end the biased take of rejecting made-to-order photographic equipment view apps by Apple.

* Asking Earn from Image App Developers

And finally, we’ve definite to share our write up publicly. Maybe Orchard apple tree bequeath change if sufficiency dwell give them recognise they don’t go for with how they’ve handled this status. We lavatory no mortal do it by ourselves, we take your help.

* Wish telecommunicate Orchard apple tree to give them recognise you’re unfortunate astir their actions (appreview@apple.com and schiller@apple.com).

In conclusion, this heroic tale has sown many an doubts astir the business organization that Orchard apple tree has with developers like us.

1. Our company has been discredited and devastated.

We’ve worn out the relative quantity of our resources on iVidCam, solitary to see it unjustly unloved and Orchard apple tree open to book. It’s frustrating especially since we were big fans of Orchard apple tree and our company of 6 iphone developers has been wrapped up to underdeveloped iPhone apps and on the job with Orchard apple tree. We were tally on iVidCam gross sales. Present our company is struggling to break even and we’re at the embarrassing place of decisive whether continued to develop for the iPhone is property or not.

2. It doesn’t feel good to be disrespected, unattended, and misled as a developer.

It’s been a nerve-racking process because we’ve dependable our C. H. Best to interact and reach out to Orchard apple tree, solitary to be unnoticed and not dosed as a true book individual. If Orchard apple tree treats developers like this present, what is the coming of Apple-and-developers social relation? In our case, we feel like Orchard apple tree misled us, metamorphic the rules arbitrarily, and chastised us for stressful to be good iPhone developers that work within the organization. Ironically, our company has been wrapped up 100% to underdeveloped for the non-jailbroken iPhone, solitary to be chastised by Orchard apple tree. And if Orchard apple tree comes out with their ain visual communication photographic equipment app on Gregorian calendar month 8, 2009 at WWDC, it bequeath be a tragicomic day for us and also thousands of developers. The App Hold on is not a good organization when the dwell in charge lavatory do some they search with no answerableness, even at the departure and scathe of early parties.

3. What’s a publicised API?

One of the key issues in our write up is what constitutes a “publicised API”? We’ve expressed this period of play and period of play to Orchard apple tree, but we think that unmatchable of the strongest publication mechanisms they have is the front Page of the App Hold on. Orchard apple tree appears to meticulously opt which apps to have. The conspicuous apps exalt users to pay them and developers to develop them. In this case, Orchard apple tree conspicuous 25shot in Feb and QuadCam in Crataegus oxycantha, along with plausive large indefinite amount of made-to-order photographic equipment view apps in between. These conspicuous apps appeared to millions of iPhone users on their screen background and also on their iPhones (AppStore). If these apps were exploitation an “published API”, then reason were they conspicuous product multiplication on the front Page of the App Hold on? And reason were large indefinite amount of these apps authorized? If Orchard apple tree was wrong in featuring these apps, then they misled developers like us to pay oodles of capital and resources in physical process. Thoughtless, by featuring these apps, Orchard apple tree clearly implicitly publicised the use of these APIs to millions of users and developers. And by continuously featuring these apps, Orchard apple tree strong their publicised position of the made-to-order photographic equipment api usage.

Please share this write up with your readers.

yours,
David and Susan Lee
GP Apps

Got a Good iPhone 3G S Fireworks Visual communication?

How well does iPhone 3G S’s visual communication photographic equipment capture fireworks?

Will you share your iPhone 4th of July fireworks videos?

I’ll post a visual communication present aft it gets darker out. [So, unfortunately our municipality canceled this year's courtly fireworks show because of program cuts.] If you got whatever good fireworks videos on your iPhone 4th of July, I would love to see them.

Post a link in the comments or telecommunicate your visual communication to appleiphonereview [at] gmail [back breaker] com and I’ll have them on the site.

To telecommunicate your visual communication from your iPhone, go to the visual communication and touch the screen to bring up the top and bottom menus. Then, touch the ikon to the left of the bottom agenda and touch Telecommunicate Visual communication. If your visual communication is too prominent to telecommunicate, iPhone bequeath give notice you and give you trim the visual communication down.

To post your visual communication to YouTube, do the equivalent as subdivision omit touch Institutionalise to YouTube.

I look forward to hopefully perception many 4th of July fireworks. Well-chosen Triumph Day to every of you in the states!

Diverting with the iPhone measuring system

Note (9/12): there is an exercise in the iBrickr PXL sepulcher named 'Balls' which golf course to this Page. I have thing to do with that app; it was created by Grudgnor period of play at the MacRumors forum.

Those UN agency have followed this diary bequeath recognise that I like to like to play with unaccustomed stimulant methods (see my early posts on , ambient light sensors, and the SmackBook).

As it turns out, the iPhone has a intrinsical LIS302DL, a flyspeck 3-mechanism measuring system. Time some have attempted to use it from within the Hunting expedition web browser (the Rock game detects changes to the dimension of the web browser Page; it is basically victimised as a 1-bit stimulant style), its potential drop is still somewhat untapped.

After a rather long playing period of reverse-engineering (I had barely untouched ARM assemblage before this), I finally patterned out how to operation the raw collection from the measuring system itself, as lavatory be seen in the visual communication subdivision. Source mark will be posted as soon as possible is posted here. (update: no, it is opening to operation the measuring system directly done UIKit without this hack -- however, you'll be barred to the default on try appraise, which is too slow for many of the diverting stuff)

Straw parrot: What would you like to see on the iPhone?