Given the number of flashlight apps in the store the answer had to be a yes.
Check the docs for ‘torch’ and ‘flash', that seems to have interfaces for turning the LED on and off, whether the torch one or the flash one or possibly they are the same anyway. > On 29 Oct 2014, at 7:31 pm, William Squires <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to fire the flash (LED) on my iPhone 5(s) without taking a > photo? (i.e. is there a programmatic interface to turn the LED on/off via an > ObjC message send? Can I talk to it directly using C? Also, does iOS have > OpenCV, or something like it, so the camera can detect flashing lights > (either from the "flash" LED on another smartphone, or even a flashlight)? > I'd like to make a simple morse code sender/receiver using a pair of iPhones > that have the "flash" LED, and the camera. The initial version would just > have a UIView with a UIButton the user could tap to turn the LED on, and a > UIImage (?) showing the current "view" the camera sees, and - under that - a > UILabel showing the translated morse code as the user taps the button. Later, > I'd like to have two UILabels, one for sending and one for receiving, so that > it would also translate the incoming messages as well, by detecting the > flashing with the camera itself. This is why I'm guessing I'll need OpenCV > library. > If not, no biggie. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
