Distance moved by Accelerometer

Question

I want to move objects on iPhone screen (rectangle, circle and so on) by moving iPhone. For example, I move iPhone along X-axis and the object moves along X-axis. The same

Answer 1

Not easy to do accurately. An accelerometer only reports acceleration, not movement. You can try (numerically) integrating the acceleration over time, but you're likely to end up with cumulative errors adding up and leading to unintended motion.

Pseudocode, obviously untested:

init:
    loc = {0, 0, 0}    ; location of object on screen
    vel = {0, 0, 0}    ; velocity of object on screen
    t = 0              ; last time measured

step:
    t0 = time          ; get amount of time since last measurement
    dt = t0 - t
    accel = readAccelerometer()
    vel += accel * dt  ; update velocity
    loc += vel * dt    ; update position
    displayObjectAt(loc)