Hi all, does anyone know if the Mac's, specifically a Mac Air, have the hardware acceleromater and gyros to really support the Core Motion APIs in MacOS?
I've got a working iOS app that uses the accelerometer and gyro readings, but I've been asked to port it to a Mac Air.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Regardless of whether they have the hardware, Macs don’t support CoreMotion. The framework is present in the macOS SDK for the benefit of Mac Catalyst but much of the API is marked as unavailable and those bits that you can call won’t return useful info.
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"Regardless of whether they have the hardware, Macs don’t support CoreMotion. The framework is present in the macOS SDK for the benefit of Mac Catalyst but much of the API is marked as unavailable and those bits that you can call won’t return useful info.
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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"Thanks Eskimo, that's saved me wasting a lot of time and effort!
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Just tried and the above answer is still relevant, as the feature only works on iOS. CoreMotion compiles without errors on MacOS but the calls don't return any useful info
