Write an iPhone application

Completed Posted Jan 20, 2016 Paid on delivery
Completed Paid on delivery

I need a stable iOS application that automatically takes a screenshot, a front facing iSight photograph, and a user facing FaceTime photograph every 15 minutes. I will be using this to take photographs of myself over the course of the next year.

Ideally It needs to run in the background, and launch automatically when the phone starts. Ideally it would suppress the sound or visual indicators associated with screenshots and webcam photos. The images should be saved with timestamps in the filename - I will provide file naming format.

I am aware of the constraints that iOS puts on accessing the camera or any other services while in the background. ([login to view URL]) It is my understanding that there are several possible routes around this:

1. It may be possible to have it push an alert and ask for user approval to

2. It may be possible to do this with a jailbroken phone ([login to view URL])

3. It might be possible to capture an image periodically on your phone based on location change or notifications from an external service.

Some documentation on the third possibility:

"In iOS, only specific app types are allowed to run in the background:

Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app

Apps that record audio content while in the background

Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app

Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Apps that need to download and process new content regularly

Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories"

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"In iOS, regions associated with your app are tracked at all times, including when the app isn’t running. If a region boundary is crossed while an app isn’t running, that app is relaunched into the background to handle the event. Similarly, if the app is suspended when the event occurs, it’s woken up and given a short amount of time (around 10 seconds) to handle the event"

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Apple's documentation suggests that the app has full access to hardware and services while handling these events. If that's true you could take and save a picture during this time.

Two ideas to for someone who knows iOS development:

- Can we setup a geofence so that iphone takes a picture after you show up at a new location. Dropbox does something like this for its camera upload feature. If you move to a new location and the phone connects to wifi it will start uploading photos from your library. (Is there a way to do this every 15 minutes?)

- Can we setup an external service that pings your capture app every 15 minutes. While "processing data received from the external service" the app takes a photo. This wouldn't work for time spent in a subway, though.

Obviously none of these would pass the app store approval process. But since it's just for personal use that doesn't matter, only matters if it can be done with iOS API.

Please craft your response to make clear you have read this specification and have the specific skills to make this happen.

If you think the budget needs to be more than $250 I will consider those bids.

iPhone Mobile App Development Objective C

Project ID: #9397714

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