Thursday, October 13, 2011

Video: GPS and Compass in Delphi/FireMonkey for iOS

29 comments:

  1. Dear Anders,

    Very nice work on the iOS development.
    I've been reading your articles with greate interest.

    While watching your video about GPS on iOS, I noticed your altitude
    is also shown, but when I build and test the app on my phone.
    The altitude shows 0 ft

    Going over the build-log and the source I could not find the problem, a google search let me to a forum, where someone stated he had to call the delegate 3 or 4 times before the altitude was shown (this was not about your example)

    Do you have any idea's about the matter ?

    Thanks in advance,
    Jonathan

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  2. It takes a couple of iterations for the altitude to be shown. It may also be an issue of platform. I haven't looked, but maybe it only works on 3GS and 4? Maybe only with iOS 4+?

    When I run it, it takes several seconds for the altitude to get a fix. It actually took well over a minute right now.

    Just let the app run for two minutes and watch it.

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  3. Hi Anders

    Thanks for the great work.

    Unfortunately I cannot run the FMX_GPS demo, it compiles in my windows virtual windows but in XCODE I get different errors:

    On iPhone 5.1 Simulator I get this :” Command / bin/sh failed with exit code 1.

    If I run this on my device then I get 9 issues:
    cp: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Info.plist: No such file or directory
    cp: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/FMX_GPS: No such file or directory
    rm: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Info.plist: No such file or directory
    rm: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/FMX_GPS: No such file or directory
    rmdir: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF: No such file or directory
    rmdir: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents/Resources: No such file or directory
    rmdir: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM/Contents: No such file or directory
    rmdir: /Users/navidjamshidi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/FMX_GPS-asxadtzyoowpgbefxrguhnmabrgj/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos/FMX_GPS.app/FMX_GPS.dSYM: No such file or directory

    I appreciate your respond to this matter.
    Thanks
    Navid

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  4. These errors have nothing to do with the cause. It's probably missing the component PAS file. Make sure you add the component source code files to the project on the Xcode side.

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  5. Hi Anders,

    Now that Delphi XE5 is shipping, I am assuming that the Free Pascal Wrapper is no longer necessary because of the additional control support in the product. Here is some code that I wrote (that doesn't use FPC) that will work on iOS and Android using the OrientationSensor. The only problem is that my code only works when the device is laying perfectly flat if it is tilted in anyway the compass is off. Can you tell me what I need to do to correct the compass for tilt?

    procedure TMainF.OrientationSensor1DataChanged(Sender: TObject);
    var
    X,Y,d,Deg : Double;
    begin
    X := OrientationSensor1.Sensor.HeadingX;
    Y := OrientationSensor1.Sensor.HeadingY;
    d := ABS(X/Y);
    Deg := RadToDeg(ArcTan(d));
    XLbl.Text := 'X=' + FloatToStr(X);
    YLbl.Text := 'Y=' + FloatToStr(Y);
    dLbl.Text := 'd=' + FloatToStr(d);
    { adjust degree for quadrant }
    if (Y >= 0) and (X <= 0) then
    Deg := Deg
    else if (Y < 0) and (X <= 0) then
    Deg := 180 - Deg
    else if (Y 0) then
    Deg := 180 + Deg
    else if (Y >= 0) and (X > 0) then
    Deg := 360 - Deg;
    DegLbl.Text := 'Deg=' + FloatToStr(Deg);
    Compass.RotationAngle := -Deg; { display compass direction }
    end;

    Note: There is a property: OrientationSensor1.Sensor.MagHeading but on my device it always displays as "NAN"

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