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Craig Gilchrist
Craig Gilchrist
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Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist is the Digital Director at Eden Agency (http://createdineden.com/), a small but mighty digital agency that is at the forefront of proximity marketing. His team is one of the first to release commercial iBeacon-powered apps in the world and currently boast over 1.5 million app downloads in multiple fields and have a perfectly balanced technical and creative team. Craig is based in North Yorkshire, England, and has been developing commercial software since graduating from the University of Teesside in 2004 with a BSc in Software Engineering and has been building apps for iOS since 2009. Craig is an avid reader and is always at the forefront of commercial technological developments. Other than mobile app development and digital marketing, Craig also has a keen interest in developing rich media, including gaming, children's interactive media, and a very keen interest in Unity and virtual reality with Oculus Rift.
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Let's get building


We'll be building a simple master-detail application similar to that of Chapter 6, Leaving Regions – Don't Forget Your Stuff. Our master view controller will be used to show the Estimote beacons in range, while the detail view controller will be used to change the values of the beacon.

Our detail view controller will also show the output from the beacon's temperature sensor and will also vibrate the iPhone when the beacon is moved.

Let's start by firing up Xcode and creating a new project following the given steps:

  1. Choose Master-Detail Application as our template.

  2. Set Product Name as Estimote Beacon Manager, uncheck the Use Core Data checkbox, and use LI as our class prefix.

  3. To make our app vibrate, we will need the Audio Toolbox framework; so, go ahead and add that framework to the project.

Adding EstimoteSDK

We'll be using CocoaPods to add EstimoteSDK. If you're not familiar with CocoaPods, it's a Ruby dependency manager for Objective-C projects that allows you to add dependencies...

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Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist is the Digital Director at Eden Agency (http://createdineden.com/), a small but mighty digital agency that is at the forefront of proximity marketing. His team is one of the first to release commercial iBeacon-powered apps in the world and currently boast over 1.5 million app downloads in multiple fields and have a perfectly balanced technical and creative team. Craig is based in North Yorkshire, England, and has been developing commercial software since graduating from the University of Teesside in 2004 with a BSc in Software Engineering and has been building apps for iOS since 2009. Craig is an avid reader and is always at the forefront of commercial technological developments. Other than mobile app development and digital marketing, Craig also has a keen interest in developing rich media, including gaming, children's interactive media, and a very keen interest in Unity and virtual reality with Oculus Rift.
Read more about Craig Gilchrist