There are severaldiscussions about apple store rejections and what phone specific functionality can be added to help an app get through. I'd like to suggest an idea for a 3rd party plugin - Shake-a-page! Mobile safari cannot detect shake, so this would definately be tick in the box for apple acceptance. The idea is that you could call up an existing page when you shake your device. Or perhaps display updateable content in an on-screen alert. Do-able?

Maybe I can mess around and make it? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150446/how-do-i-detect-when-someone-shakes-an-iphone#comment927523_159610 Hoping this code will work for 4.0+ through, if anyone else can provide some code examples, it will just have to be implemented into a blank plugin afterwords. David buzztouchmods.com

David, that would be great. I had a try, but I didn't get any further than detecting a shake - I couldn't do anything with it! I used this thread as my startpoint :- http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=C075D70763120E5C03C765F Cheers, Alan

I like this idea. I was thinking of adding something like this to my ios audio player to randomize to a new song, sorta like Pandora does. Thanks for the tips on that post. It's GOLD when David chimes in and instructs where to slice and dice up code to make standard iOS stuff work in BT. I may have to play around with this sooner than later. I just came across a great resource on UIGestures that I shelved for later reading, but now I want to learn....

@Atrain - cheers! The real challenge is how to make it work as a function - IE - what's it going to do and where would it be integrated in? David buzztouchmods.com

Hi David, shake could be linked to a selectable page created in BT. You can simply display the page when you shake and go back to your previous place when you close it. Or it could be linked to html content and pop an alert with that content. The key thing is that Apple can see the app has native functionality that you can't get from a mobile web site in mobile safari. I had a go at adding some code to my appdelegate.m that I'd be happy to share, I was able to get as far as detecting a shake, but I couldn't do anything useful with it. And it falls way short of a plugin.

@Alan, that code would be gold right now - send it to me as a message on this forum! I like the idea a lot: 1. shake phone - phone detects shakee 2. detected shake triggers user selected screen correct? David buzztouchmods.com

Correct! Not sure it's gold, but message sent.

Hi David, I just wondered if you have had any luck with the code sample - was the message received ?

Hey Alan, here you go! IT'S LIVE! https://www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=FAD3221726833083625AFA1 Cheers! David https://buzztouchmods.com/market