Augmented reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter / Trevor Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Trevor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augmented reality.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Smartphones--Programming.

Smartphones.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (51 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [Eng.] : Packt Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Ward Trevor: Trevor Ward has been developing business applications for over 20 years. Starting as a Cobol Developer, he has worked on various large scale projects that included the Y2K issues. Moving into web development in the late 90s using Perl, HTML, JavaScript, and Oracle, he was a part of the team that developed internal business applications for Jaguar cars. After moving on, he was able to update his skills for Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex, before 18 months ago picking up on the mobile development platform. He uses Titanium exclusively for mobile development and is an Appcelerator Titan (community expert), TCAD and TCE qualified, and spends as much time as possible, answering questions on the forums.

Summary:

It's a quick start tutorial to help you get started with creating Augmented Reality applications and acquainting yourself with essential aspects of creating AR applications using the Appcelerator Titanium Framework. The instructions are clear with easy to follow examples. This book is for anybody who wishes to understand how to build an Augmented Reality Application. It uses the Appcelerator Titanium mobile development framework, but the techniques and practices can be applied to other frameworks and native code. You will need to have a good working knowledge of development and JavaScript, it

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; www.PacktPub.com; www.PacktLib.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter; So, what is Augmented Reality?; Installation; Step 1 - What do I need?; Step 2 - Downloading Titanium Studio; Step 3 - Apple developer account; Step 4 - Google Places API; Step 5 - Get augmentedTi; And that's it!; The application architecture; An overview; The application; Augmented Reality; The basics; Device testing; Getting the location; Data processing; Distance and direction; Distance; Bearing; Degree; Radius; Sort

Building the interfaceRadar; POIs; The camera view; Moving the display; Updating the data; Height; Distance; Data; People and places you should get to know; Official sites; Articles and tutorials; Twitter; Book links; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781283739139

1283739135

9781849693912

1849693919

OCLC:

818819127