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Angry Ninja
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04/18/14 03:00 PM (10 years ago)

NEW PLUGIN: Tactical GPS

Just added another plugin to the market. Enjoy! https://www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=DD601EBD12E3764711AFD75 Tactical GPS gives the user of your app the information they need about their current latitude, longitude, altitude, heading direction, speed traveling, and surrounding environment, all in a military style visual style. The plugin also contains a map view, which auto locates the user. Of course, the user can zoom in or out, rotate, and even find point of interest around them. Live Update allows the user to turn off the function that fetches and refreshes their environment details every single second. If they prefer to lock the details, for example to show someone how high they really were when mountain climbing or hiking, they can simply turn it off with the flip of a switch and the statistics will stop updating themselves, locking in the data on the screen. Ever wonder exactly how accurate those location apps are? Your users won’t wonder with this plugin… accuracy details are also displayed, letting the user know exactly how close the figures are. These live accuracy stats are based on the towers and signals used to locate your decide directly through Apple’s technology. The plugin comes setup for distances measured in feet by default, but can be switched to meters with a simple code edit on one of the files. Simply delete this in the AN_Tactical.m file: * 3.2808399 After that, the plugin will use Meters for all measurements instead of feet (a meter is 3.2808399 feet in case you were wondering how it works) As always, this plugin is laid out on an easy to edit XIB file. Don’t like the background? We’re not offended… simply change it out with any PNG file on the XIB for a whole new look! All objects can be rearranged, text font can be increased or decreased, colors can be swapped… Have it YOUR way!
 
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04/18/14 08:18 PM (10 years ago)
This plugin is perfect for one of my apps. It looks like the Lat/Long is being reported in decimal degrees. Any chance it can also be converted to UTM? Also, are the coordinates only reported in NAD83/WGS84? Or can they be converted to NAD27? (i'm guessing the WGS84 / Decimal degrees is the native coordinate system for the phone?) Looks great! Can't wait to start playing with it.
 
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04/18/14 08:26 PM (10 years ago)
Thanks Stobe. No conversion process built in at the moment, but a great idea for the next update! And you are correct, it's reporting in the native iphone coordinate format, using the CLLocationManager class as it's backbone. I'm sure theres a way to convert to UTM, just haven't had the need to look into yet, since I just finished up the plugin. I'll check into it though. Hope you like it. Feel free (and encouraged) to leave a review. I've noticed the lack of this kind of visial style in the plugin market, which many apps could use... not sure what you'd call it... militaristic I guess. This type of styling could be used for military apps, video game apps, or other things of that nature. Seems like many of the plugins available have that "clip art" type of feel that I'm trying to steer away from when creating my designs.
 
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12/05/16 08:43 PM (7 years ago)
I just bought this a few days ago to use in a new app (before all the changes with new ownership). Doesn't work at all. Issue with iOS 10?
 

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