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Unity and HealthKit

7/7/2014

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Unity being a very user friendly software that is used in designing many games and constructs for companies. Today I explored the inner workings of Unity. It's a 3D engine publisher and editing tool. The best thing about this tool is that it enables you create a splash screen scene and play it. Its also very compatible with many types of platforms. You can create a spinning text splash screen that is attached to the game object. I also looked at a few tutorials in the Unity, many of which were building games. Aside from building the graphics for the game there is also various coding languages that can be used in Unity. Two of which are used often, C# and JavaScript. It's even more interesting when you start to see how much code and thought has to go into  small piece of a game. Like the inventory. Which would require C# and knowledge in for loop and arrays.  Since i haven't worked with C# I decided to also learn a bit more about it by using Microsoft visual C# 2010 which was fun. It is very easy to use for anyone who wants to learn C#. Its drag and drop half the time and the rest you will be coding the functions for buttons on your application to execute/run



-          Health kit performs measurement/units conversions for you.
-          Specify units using unit strings.
-          Create an HKQuantitiy (double value relative to a unit), HKQuantity is also used for unit conversion.
-          There will be some quantities/units that are not compatible with each other so we must use a Boolean.
-          In Health kit various object types can be stored.
-          Every object type has its own type identifier
-          Every quantity sample has a quantity type (this is what kind of sample it represents). Every quantity type requires a specific type of unit.
-I'm not to clear with understanding the Health Kit yet, but i hope to master the key foundation for it in time.



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ed lee
7/9/2014 09:44:04 pm

Hey Yathen! I really like this post! I'd like to go over some of this backend stuff with you on the apple healthkit side of things and see how information is set up for orgnization on the back end.

I'm wonder if they have pre-classified data, i.e. does health kit have some fields that exist as a standard such as blood pressure, height, etc?Honestly the human body is just so incredibly complex. Add tracking and the fact that data interacting with new data creates even more data and oh my goodness! In my era efficient programming was big because you had very small storage sizes. a floppy disk might hold half a megabyte. Once again with battery life and limited storage space on mobile devices we can see some possibility that similar compromises are being made. (You mention as such on your google glass post.) It's great that storage is being handled on the cloud.
I need more info for my upcoming blog post!
See you later today!

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    Yathin Latif is a upcoming sophomore originally a Biology major but became interested in computing and code. He is now working towards a BS in computer science. Learning new languages and tools to further his goals.  This summer he hopes to learn as much as possible over these few weeks. Looking to learn more about in software and mobile development.

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