Accelerometer in the simulator

[ochrons]

Hi,

As we have all noticed, the iPhone simulator environment doesn't provide accelerometer services. I don't know about you, but atleast for me it's quite annoying to always use the device for debugging applications that use the accelerometer. It would be so much faster using the simulator.

So, I created this application for iPhone that takes the accelerometer data on the device and sends it over UDP to other apps. Then a small library is attached to the application that you wish to debug on the simulator, receiving that data and simulating UIAccelerometer behaviour. No change to your source code required (besides one #import statement).

You can also use it for other purposes, such as controlling other applications by writing a small receiver application that converts accelerometer data to other commands.

It's open source at accelerometer-simulator - Google Code but as it is my first iPhone (and OSX) application, please excuse the poor design

[Kenrik]

that's pretty dam cool.. I can imagine using the iphone the same way you use your Wii controller to play a game on your mac.. Hmmm

[zotya]

Hi,

I also made an accelerometer simulator, what doesn't need any iphone/ipod to be connected to the computer.

You can download it and the entire description here.

Cheers

[odysseus31173]

Agreed, that is rather neat