1. My Favorite Features in
iOS 7
Howard Huang

2. Overview
• iOS Accessories
• Game Controller
• iBeacons

3. iOS Accessories
• MFi(Made for iPhone)
- Lightening
- Bluetooth
• Non-MFi
- Bluetooth 4.0 low energy
- Wifi
- 3.5mm headphone protocol

4. Game Controller
• Game Controller framework
• iOS and OS X
• Extended Gamepad, Standard
Gamepad

5. • Benefit
• Let the third-party accessory developer
build the MFi gamepad, you don't need to
add every controller framework from
third-pary controller.
• Integration the game controller API inside
your non-game app to do more about
interaction with users. ex: Simulate the
mouse with joystick

6. Framework: GCController
• Method for you use the game controller
• Handle the connect/disconnect
(NSNotificationCenter)
• You can discover the game controller INSIDE your
app
• Use polling and block to controller the input

7. iBeacons
• Region monitor
• Ranging and micro-locations
• Awake your app by push notification by iBeacons
• In app notification when user enter the customized
region
• Third-party Bluetooth LE or iOS device can be
iBeacons
• One beacon ID can cover multiple locations
• Accuracy and range awareness

8. Example

9. Example

10. Background

12. Foreground

13. How can the iBeacons
do this?
• Bluetooth 4.0 low energy
• Two different roles: Central and Peripheral
• In App control, you can connect your app
to the bluetooth 4.0 device without the
agreement by user

14. Peripheral
• Role - Has Data
• It can keep broadcasting the advertisement
data event no-one connect to it
• When the central connect to it, it can do
the continuous data sending(Notify)

15. Central
• Role - Need Data
• Although you don't connect to the
peripheral devices, you can get the
advertisement data they broadcasted
• Central controls the connection

16. Back to iBeacons
• Definitely it is a peripheral
• iBeacons broadcasting the range from your
iPhone to them -> if the range is close
enough -> iOS tell your app that you're
enter the region what you want ->Your
app notify the user! That's it!

17. Thanks!