What is analog for CTCallStateIncoming in iOS 10? - ios

Before iOS 10 we can use [[self.call callState] isEqualToString:#"CTCallStateIncoming"] to detect incoming calls. In IOS10 callState deprecated and Replaced by CallKit/CXCall.h properties. But there is no such status like "Incoming" in CallKit, they came up with "outgoing", "onHold", "hasConnected", "hasEnded" statuses. I need Incoming or analog. Any workarounds so far? Thank you for any suggestions.

You should be able to use CallKit's CXCallObserver and CXCall APIs and use the following condition to detect when a given CXCall is incoming (!isOutgoing), has not yet been answered (!hasConnected), and has not ended (!hasEnded):
!cxCall.isOutgoing && !cxCall.hasConnected && !cxCall.hasEnded

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Clarification on CoAp implementation for contikiOS

I'm trying to send packets over CoAP between two TI 2650 sensortags. I used the logic from the "er-rest-example" provided by contiki 3.0, that is:
coap_init_message(request, COAP_TYPE_CON, COAP_POST, 0);
coap_set_header_uri_path(request, url);
coap_set_payload(request, (uint8_t*)msg, sizeof(msg) - 1);
COAP_BLOCKING_REQUEST(&server_ip, REMOTE_PORT, request, client_chunk_handler);
When I started the program, it works as expected until the first time COAP_BLOCKING_REQUEST is called, at which point the program seems to freeze (doesn't react to button presses anymore).
So I assume COAP_BLOCKING_REQUEST blocks until it receives a response, which is not suitable for my project. Can anyone confirm that?
UPDATE:
Going forward from that assumption, my question now is, what steps to I have to take to send out a packet?
Do I use the coap_send_message function from er-coap.c or the coap_send_transaction function from er-coap-transaction.c?
I want to figure out what functions I have to call in which order to configure the packet correctly and then send it out with the correct function (which I guess would be one of the above).
Maybe there is some documentation out there that I haven't found yet and someone could point me to it?
Cheers

using core bluetooth framework did discover peripherals delegate method is not getting called by itself in swift

Following is my code which i have written.I found many similar question but could not get proper answer helpful to me.
I am using swift and ios 8 for working and using core bluetooth Did discover peripheral method should be called by itself but is not getting called. what should I do to resolve?
code
Your problem is that you are invoking scanForPeripheralsWithServices immediately after creating the CBCentralManager - You need to wait until the central manager is in the powered on state.
ie -
func centralManagerDidUpdateState(central: CBCentralManager) {
...
else if central.state == CBCentralManagerState.PoweredOn {
central.scanForPeripheralsWithServices(nil,options:nil)
}
...
}
Also, in future you should post your code into your question and use the {} icon to mark it as code rather than inserting images, as images makes it impossible to copy your code into an answer
UPDATE
Your other problem is that you are creating your CBcentralManager as a local variable inside your btnScanClicked so as soon as this method ends your CBCentralManager will be released. You need to create it as a property on your class and then refer to self.central

Can I get badge number with trigger.io

Trigger.io provides a forge.notification.setBadgeNumber method to set the ios badge number. Is it possible to retrieve the badge number with trigger.io?
My use case is that I have a messaging system where the badge number is the number of unread message - I want to decrease the badge number when the user reads a message. To do that, I need to know the current badge number...
Suggestion on better ways to implement this will also be appreciated.
You could easily write your own native module to get the current badge count in Trigger.io apps. I have one in use and the relevant function looks like this:
+ (void)getBadgeNumber:(ForgeTask*)task {
NSNumber *count = [NSNumber numberWithInt:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] applicationIconBadgeNumber]];
[task success:count];
}
UPDATE:
It seems like Trigger.io added the getBadgeNumber call to their notifications module. Available methods are:
forge.notification.setBadgeNumber(number, success, error)
forge.notification.getBadgeNumber(success, error)
If you're using the Parse module for push notifications you can even retrieve and set the badge number on the Parse server as of now.

Send programmatically SMS on jailbreak device

I am using a iOS 6 iphone 4S and I want to be able to send the unnoticed sms messages.
So using the standard view controller won't work in this case.
I tried using
- (BOOL)sendSMSWithText:(id)arg1 serviceCenter:(id)arg2 toAddress:(id)arg3;
but it doesn't send anything and returns NO. I used nil for arg2.
Can someone suggest a way to do it on iOS 6?(for jailbroken devices)
Found out why - (BOOL)sendSMSWithText:(id)arg1 serviceCenter:(id)arg2 toAddress:(id)arg3; is not working since iOS 6.
This API is protected by the entitlement com.apple.CommCenter.Messages-send. Just sign your app with this entitlement set to true. It's much better than my another answer here (XPC method) because of the two main reasons:
sendSMSWithText tells you whethere message was sent successfully
Messages sent using sendSMSWithText are not being saved in the SMS database and can't be seen anywhere. On the other hand, messages sent using XPC method are being saved in SMS database and can be seen in Messages application.
So, win win. I strongly suggest dropping XPC method also because it's using pretty low level API that can change easily in new iOS version. sendSMSWithText can be found even in iOS 7 and I don't think it will be dropped any time soon.
UPDATE
In order to use this API on iOS 7 and above you need to add another entitlement with bool value set to true - com.apple.coretelephony.Identity.get.
Straight from ChatKit.framework
dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("com.apple.chatkit.clientcomposeserver.xpc_connection_queue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
xpc_connection_t connection = xpc_connection_create_mach_service("com.apple.chatkit.clientcomposeserver.xpc", queue, 0);
xpc_connection_set_event_handler(connection, ^(xpc_object_t){});
xpc_connection_resume(connection);
dispatch_release(queue);
xpc_object_t dictionary = xpc_dictionary_create(0, 0, 0);
xpc_dictionary_set_int64(dictionary, "message-type", 0);
NSData* recipients = [NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList:[NSArray arrayWithObject:#"12212"] format:NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0 options:0 error:NULL];
xpc_dictionary_set_data(dictionary, "recipients", recipients.bytes, recipients.length);
xpc_dictionary_set_string(dictionary, "markup", "SMS text");
xpc_connection_send_message(connection, dictionary);
xpc_release(dictionary);
recipients holds serialized property list with array of phone numbers to which you want to send your SMS - 12212 is just an example of phone number. Instead of SMS text you should put actual SMS text. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to check whether SMS was sent successfully.
To send message using this code your application entitlements should have com.apple.messages.composeclient key with boolean value set to true. Otherwise you get error in console saying application lacks entitlement.

Set an initial focal distance on iOS

I'm working on an iOS-app where one of the features is scanning QR-codes. For this I'm using the excellent library, ZBar. The scanning works fine and is generally really quick. However when you use smaller QR-codes it takes a bit longer to scan, mostly due to the fact that the autofocus needs some time to adjust. I was experimenting and noticed that the focus could be locked using the following code:
AVCaptureDevice *cameraDevice = readerView.device;
if ([cameraDevice lockForConfiguration:nil]) {
[cameraDevice setFocusMode:AVCaptureFocusModeLocked];
[cameraDevice unlockForConfiguration];
}
When this code is used after a successful scan, the coming scans are really quick. That made me wonder, could I somehow lock the focus before even scanning one code? The app will only scan rather small QR-codes so there will never be a need for focusing on something far away. Sure, I could implement something like tap to focus, but preferably I would like to avoid that extra step.
Is there a way to achieve this? Or are there maybe another way of speeding things up when dealing with smaller QR-codes?
// Alexander
In iOS7 this is now possible!
Apple has added the property autoFocusRangeRestriction to the AVCaptureDevice class. This property is of the enum AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestriction which has three different values:
AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestrictionNone - Default, no restrictions
AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestrictionNear - The subject that matters is close to the camera
AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestrictionFar - The subject that matters is far from the camera
To check if the method is available we should first check if the property autoFocusRangeRestrictionSupported is true. And since it's only supported in iOS7 an onwards we should also use respondsToSelector so we don't get an exception on earlier iOS-versions.
So the resulting code should look something like this:
AVCaptureDevice *cameraDevice = zbarReaderView.device;
if ([cameraDevice respondsToSelector:#selector(isAutoFocusRangeRestrictionSupported)] && cameraDevice.autoFocusRangeRestrictionSupported) {
// If we are on an iOS version that supports AutoFocusRangeRestriction and the device supports it
// Set the focus range to "near"
if ([cameraDevice lockForConfiguration:nil]) {
cameraDevice.autoFocusRangeRestriction = AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestrictionNear;
[cameraDevice unlockForConfiguration];
}
}
This seems to somewhat speed up the scanning of small QR-codes according to my initial tests :)
Update - iOS8
With iOS8, Apple has given us lots of new camera API's to play with. One of this new methods is this one:
- (void)setFocusModeLockedWithLensPosition:(float)lensPosition completionHandler:(void (^)(CMTime syncTime))handler
This method locks focus by moving the lens to a position between 0.0 and 1.0. I played around with the method, locking the lens at close values. However, in general it caused more problems then it solved. You had to keep the QR-codes/barcodes at a very specific distance, which could cause issues when you had codes of different sizes.
But. I think I have found a pretty good alternative to locking focus altogether. When the user press the scan button, I lock the lens to a close distance, and when it's finished I switch the camera back to auto focus. This gives us the benefits of keeping auto focus on, but forces the camera to begin at a close distance where a QR-code/barcode is likely to be found. This in combination with:
cameraDevice.autoFocusRangeRestriction = AVCaptureAutoFocusRangeRestrictionNear;
And:
cameraDevice.focusPointOfInterest = CGPointMake(0.5,0.5);
Results in a pretty snappy scanner.
I also built a custom scanner with the API's introduced in iOS7, instead of using ZBar. Mostly because the ZBar-libs are quite outdated and as when iPhone 5 introduced ARMv7s I now had to recompile it again for ARM64.
// Alexander
iOS 8 recently added this configuration! It is almost like they read stack overflow
/*!
#method setFocusModeLockedWithLensPosition:completionHandler:
#abstract
Sets focusMode to AVCaptureFocusModeLocked and locks lensPosition at an explicit value.
#param lensPosition
The lens position, as described in the documentation for the lensPosition property. A value of AVCaptureLensPositionCurrent can be used
to indicate that the caller does not wish to specify a value for lensPosition.
#param handler
A block to be called when lensPosition has been set to the value specified and focusMode is set to AVCaptureFocusModeLocked. If
setFocusModeLockedWithLensPosition:completionHandler: is called multiple times, the completion handlers will be called in FIFO order.
The block receives a timestamp which matches that of the first buffer to which all settings have been applied. Note that the timestamp
is synchronized to the device clock, and thus must be converted to the master clock prior to comparison with the timestamps of buffers
delivered via an AVCaptureVideoDataOutput. The client may pass nil for the handler parameter if knowledge of the operation's completion
is not required.
#discussion
This is the only way of setting lensPosition.
This method throws an NSRangeException if lensPosition is set to an unsupported level.
This method throws an NSGenericException if called without first obtaining exclusive access to the receiver using lockForConfiguration:.
*/
- (void)setFocusModeLockedWithLensPosition:(float)lensPosition completionHandler:(void (^)(CMTime syncTime))handler NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(8_0);
EDIT: this is a method of AVCaptureDevice

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