Face Detection API in iOS 5.

CoreImage framework introduced in iOS 5 API has  classes called CIFaceFeature  and CIDetector.This class has potentially has been added for detecting face feature in the image. Currently, it offers following functionalities:

•   hasLeftEyePosition 
•   hasRightEyePosition 
•   hasMouthPosition 
•   leftEyePosition 
•   rightEyePosition 
•   mouthPosition 

CIDetector has ability to detect face as a whole.

If you are wondering how to add framework in your project, refer to this post. LINK

Possibilities with iCloud,GameKit and iOS 5

1. Business Meeting Tools: With the arrival of iCloud there will be flood of business conferencing tools where users can share documents, pictures, voice chat, interactive chalk board for multiple users etc without having to deal with creating their own backend service from the scratch, It is all in there with iCloud and GameKit. The business conferencing which exist today on mobile domain are mainly from the people who already had existing web conferencing solution. Now ! A new era has begun.

For people who have seen the  future video which was created by some great geniuses in Microsoft about future devices of tech driven society.. Some of them might actually come true now.

2. Increase in productivity: iCloud definitely gives a boost in the overall productivity of a person. You don't have to worry about where you are.. you can just do your work with your documents wherever you are.

3. For creating applications for music sharing, pics sharing.. now they won't have to depend on their web service counterpart... you can use iCloud !! Now you can say bye bye to your PHP/Java developers who were helping you out to create the back end of  your  sharing based apps. Sharing is Caring after all in the modern times.


                    

Statistics and Figures of WWDC 2011

iOS Devices sold so far: 200 millions
iPad Sold: 25 Millions
Mobile Base of iOS in world: 44% which is 16% more than second most popular mobile base.


Songs sold on iTunes:  15 Billions- Making it top retailer of songs in the world.
Ebooks sold through iBookStore- 130 Millions
iPad Apps available on AppStore- 90k


Total Amount of money made of Apple developers - 2.5 Billions !!
Customers with Apple Account: 225 Millions
Number of new APIs in iOS 5: 1500

New Frameworks in iOS 5

Here are few new frameworks added in  iOS 5.


1.Core Image Framework - I thank Apple for bringing in this framework.. with this framework come huge possibility of image processing which is possible on iPhone OS 5 without having to deal with OPENGL now unless it is some something heavy ! Till now there was only Quartz available on iOS... but arrival of CoreImage as well its great !


There is face feature detection available as well in CoreImage. LINK


2.Twitter Framework- Thats convenient ! Knowing twitter has become a part of everyone's life.. and its expected to be there in every app if you want to share things in your app with world out there ! So great work.

3.Accounts Framework - It  can be used to manage account authentication process  in your application. It is used in with Twitter framework as well.

4.Generic Security Services Framework.

5. GLKit - Now this is a great framework which has been included to ease the use of OPENGL ES in the application by developers. It looks great with the options available to get it started easily.

• The GLKView and GLKViewController  - view related classes which let you draw !
• The GLKTextureLoader class provides image conversion and loading routines to your application, allowing it to automatically load texture images into your context. 
• The GLKit framework provides implementations of vector, matrix, and quaternions as well as a matrix stack operation to provides the same functionality found in OpenGL ES 1.1.
• The GLKBaseEffect, GLKSkyboxEffect, and GLKReflectionMapEffect classes provide precreated, configurable graphics shaders that implement commonly used graphics operations. 

HOW TO Install iCloud beta on iOS 5 Device ?

                                 HOW TO install iCloud on iOS 5 Device

Step 1. Download and Install

Update your iOS device to iOS 5, by downloading iOS 5 beta from the iOS Dev Center. (iOS Developer Program Members Only).

Step 2. Setup Account

Setup your iCloud account either during the iOS 5 setup assistant or by tapping Settings > iCloud and signing in with your Apple ID or creating a new Apple ID.

Please note

You can use any Apple ID providing it is a full email address and not a MobileMe account. If you have a MobileMe account, you can copy data from that account to an iCloud account to use during testing.

Step 3. Enable Services

Open the iCloud settings by tapping Settings > iCloud to enable or change the services you wish to use with iCloud