All posts tagged “ios”

iPhone App: Movie Ratings

Posted 15 years ago ·  Tagged: , , , · 2 Comments

I recently updated my Game of Thrones app to support iPad, and am now looking at a new idea for an application. Basically, I often find myself wanting to know one or more of three things about a movie: Its IMDb rating, its Rotten Tomatoes rating and/or its runtime. As far as I can see, no application on the app store currently does this in any easy way, so I’ve been programming my own. Here’s a prototype screenshot:

Searching works fine, it’s not just a mock-up, it’s just done in a very sluggish way at the moment. And I don’t have a good name for it, any suggestions?

My first iPhone application – The “A Wiki of Ice and Fire” App

Posted 15 years ago ·  Tagged: , · Comments Off on My first iPhone application – The “A Wiki of Ice and Fire” App

I’m currently reading “A Dance with Dragons”, and I find myself wanting to look up characters and places a lot, so I went to look for an iPhone application that could help me, but I only found one, “Game of Thrones Companion“, and I didn’t want to pay 24 kr. So, instead, I ended up programming my own application:

I use “A Wiki of Ice and Fire” to fetch the data. All MediaWiki-powered wikis have an API which easily outputs JSON objects for what ever you want. I found a JSON framework for iOS which allowed me to import JSON objects as dictionaries, and then I used a table view, a search bar and a web view to create the app itself. It was actually meant for just personal use, but I might polish it a bit and put it on the app store.

iPhone Application: Copenhagen Mirror

Posted 16 years ago ·  Tagged: , , , · 2 Comments

I’m now on the 5th semester of Medialogy, and we’re currently developing an iPhone application. The application lets the user use the iPhone as a camera that looks back in time, i.e. if you’re standing at Christiansborg in Copenhagen and point the iPhone at the building you should see how the area looked 500 or 1000 years ago. We also wanted this environment to be interactive, i.e. the user should be able to walk and look around. This means that we wanted to model a 3D environment of the area and synchronise the position of the user in real life to the position in this 3D environment, and also allow the user to use the iPhone as virtual reality goggles, i.e. if you tilt the iPhone upwards you see the sky, if you turn around you see what’s behind you in the 3D world, etc.

We’ve been making the models in Maya and building the application itself in Unity, since it has a pretty strong iOS support. All scripts in Unity are programmed in C#.

Basically the application will have the following features:

  • User can move around by physically moving (Assisted GPS).
  • User can look around by using the iPhone as a camera into another world (Gyroscope).
  • Weather conditions in 3D environment mimic real-life weather conditions (Network connection to DMI).
    • Position of sun is calculated based on current date and time.
    • Lighting conditions are calculated by using online information about solar radiation.
  • A graphical user interface allows the user to switch between time periods.

The application is currently running on my iPhone 4, but I have no video of it, so here’s a screenshot from Unity where one of the newer editions of Christiansborg is displayed.

We do have some screenshots from the application, though:

This is from an early build, no textures on the buildings or anything, but the gyro works, i.e. you can look around the environment by turning and moving the iPhone.

This is from the newest build. The model is the Christiansborg castle  which was there before the current one. The image is dark because the sun’s location is calculated from the real sun, and it’s gone down at this point. The arrows allow you to switch between castles.