Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial
Regular readers will know about our penchant for “the where of life” concerns, especially where that intersects with software … a very big intersection!
And so, it’s been very remiss not discussing an iOS app, in Utilities (at least on an iPhone) called …
Compass
… because, in a revisit today it is not only …
- geographical position in terms of latitude and longitude … does this great app provide you … it is …
- elevation (surprisingly) … and not so surprisingly (given name of app) …
- bearing of (not up, but horizontal) direction you point the device (for us, an iPhone)
… all in the one very useful display (you can see us using in today’s animated GIF presentation) for … at the very least …
- orienteering enthusiasts
- land surveyors
- solar panel planners
- real estate enthusiasts
- astronomy enthusiasts (perhaps also using the Torch app not to trip on any tree roots!)
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I like the single-row radio-play approach for keeping the controls compact while still making each selection clear. When I’m checking a calculation alongside a tutorial, I use StepStat to see the intermediate steps; how do you handle the layout when the playlist gets much longer?