31 XE3 quick videos in 31 days - Oct6 - FireMonkey 2 Location and Motion Sensor Components

This RAD Studio XE3 video showcases FireMonkey 2's new sensor non-visual components for Location (TLocationSensor - Windows/Mac) and Motion (TMotionSensor - Windows).  These new components inherit from TCustomSensor and are built on top of the new System.Sensors unit (http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE3/en/System.Sensors).  For FireMonkey projects, these new components appear in the Sensors tab of the Tool Palette.  Sensor APIs (TSensorCategory) supported by XE3 include:

• Location


• Environmental


• Motion


• Orientation


• Mechanical


• Electrical


• Biometric


• Light


• Scanner

For each sensor category the unit defines (currently) the following possible sensor types:

• TLocationSensorType = (GPS, Static, Lookup, Triangulation, Broadcast, DeadReckoning, Other);


• TEnvironmentalSensorType = (Temperature, AtmosphericPressure, Humidity, WindSpeed, WindDirection);


• TMotionSensorType = (Accelerometer1D, Accelerometer2D, Accelerometer3D, MotionDetector, Gyrometer1D, Gyrometer2D, Gyrometer3D, Speedometer);


• TOrientationSensorType = (Compass1D, Compass2D, Compass3D, Inclinometer1D, Inclinometer2D, Inclinometer3D, Distance1D, Distance2D, Distance3D);


• TElectricalSensorType = (Voltage, Current, Capacitance, Resistance, Inductance, ElectricalPower, Potentiometer);


• TMechanicalSensorType = (BooleanSwitch, BooleanSwitchArray, MultiValueSwitch, Force, Scale, Pressure, Strain);


• TBiometricSensorType = (HumanPresence, HumanProximity, Touch);


• TLightSensorType = (AmbientLight);


• TScannerSensorType = (RFID, Barcode);

I recently blogged about how you can list the sensors available to your VCL and FMX applications:

• Listing the available sensors using RAD Studio XE3 and VCL - http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2012/10/03/41699


• Listing the available sensors using RAD Studio XE3 and FireMonkey 2 - http://blogs.embarcadero.com/davidi/2012/09/27/41676

October 6 - FireMonkey 2 Location and Motion Sensor Components

Download: http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/29065

Watch on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVl2JvqKbI

Duration: 3 minutes and 15 seconds

Size: 14.7mb

Format: MP4

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