CMDeviceMotion

The CMMotionManager class is responsible for providing data about the motion of the current device. To keep performance at the highest level, create and use a single shared CMMotionManager instance throughout your app.

CMMotionManager provides four different interfaces for sensor information, each with corresponding properties and methods to check hardware availability and access measurements.

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The Core Motion framework in Swift simplifies access to iOS and watchOS device sensors, enabling innovative user interactions beyond touch by leveraging a dedicated motion coprocessor for efficient accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data processing.

The CMMotionManager class provides a unified interface to access motion data through pull (accessing current readings) or push (closure-based updates) methods, with checks for sensor availability and support for stopping updates to conserve resources.

Examples include rotating a background image to stay level using accelerometer data, navigating view controllers by detecting user acceleration, and flipping views in a flash-card app based on device orientation using CMAttitude’s Euler angles relative to a reference frame.

The framework’s sensor fusion combines data for precise device motion tracking, while developers are advised to use a dedicated queue for motion processing and dispatch UI updates to the main queue. Swift’s clear syntax and safety features enhance Core Motion’s usability, but developers should avoid overusing motion-based interactions to ensure accessibility and focus, with further exploration of quaternions and rotation matrices recommended for advanced use cases.