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Touch and Motion Events for iOS

by James Wilson

This course is an introduction to touch and motion events for iOS. Create new user experiences for your users by learning to use touch and motion events.

What you'll learn

This course is an introduction to touch and motion events in iOS. This course will give you a detailed overview of how touch and motion events are delivered through the system. We will go through implementing touch handlers, and utilizing gesture recognizers to create various gestures so your users can interact with the content on the screen in various and intuitive ways. We will discuss advanced techniques such as handling multi-touch events and transitioning to/from gestures and animations. Finally, we will utilize motion events and look at Core Motion to get raw data from the accelerometer and gyroscope to use in our apps.

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About the author

As a mobile developer, James always had a passion for building exciting apps and always striving to make user interfaces that were easy and intuitive to use. Today, he now works at Pendo where he is helping to build tools that can be used to make apps that people love. He is accomplishing this by building distributed systems that scale using Go and Google Cloud. Never satisfied with his knowledge, he is a life-long learner and is always interested in looking to grow and learn and then shares ... more

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