iPhone Proximity Sensor

Question

Can the iPhone SDK take advantage of the iPhone\'s proximity sensors? If so, why hasn\'t anyone taken advantage of them? I could picture a few decent uses.

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Answer 1

Just to update, this is possible.

device = [UIDevice currentDevice];

// Turn on proximity monitoring
[device setProximityMonitoringEnabled:YES];

// To determine if proximity monitoring is available, attempt to enable it.
// If the value of the proximityMonitoringEnabled property remains NO, proximity
// monitoring is not available.

// Detect whether device supports proximity monitoring
proxySupported = [device isProximityMonitoringEnabled];

// Register for proximity notifications
[notificationCenter addObserver:self selector:@selector(proximityChanged:) name:UIDeviceProximityStateDidChangeNotification object:device];

As benzado points out, you can use:

// Returns a BOOL, YES if device is proximate
[device proximityState];