GoIV is one of the simplest & fastest IV calculators that does not eavesdrop on game servers. Here's a video of approximately how it looks. (The UI might change some between versions.)
No, and iOS doesn't have several of the APIs required to work on iOS as it does on android (App overlays, Screen API).
The most common reason for the dot to be misaligned is when the user levels up their trainer level, and doesn't increase it in the GoIV app. You can check your GoIV set trainer level in the persistent notification.
The most common reasons are:
- Screen changing apps / features such as screen tinting and dynamic brightness level makes GoIV fail at recognizing the pokemon screen.
- The phone you're running has a faulty screen capture api (Seems to occasionally affect Cyanogen and some lesser known phone brands)
- GoIV has not been granted permission to draw over other apps.
- GoIV wasn't started / is running in screenshot mode.
Scan the pokemon by pressing the iv-button in the lower left corner. Press "check iv", press the "Moveset" tab, scroll down, and export.
Our goal is to create an app that's compliant with the terms of use, by only using information already available to the player, and only performing calculations the player could do by hand. That said, technically Niantics terms allows them to ban anyone for any reason. To our knowledge, no GoIV user has ever been banned for using GoIV.
- Storage - To store the OCR module. (OCR - Optical character recognition, the thing that converts images of text to text.)
- Screen Capture - To identify when to add the overlay, and to scan for Pokémon information.
- Internet (Online version only): To send crash reports and automatically grab new releases.
Individual Values or 'IVs' are stats that determine how much extra power a Pokémon has in addition to the baseline (0% IV). IVs consists of Attack (affects damage of moves), Defense (affects amount of damage received) and Stamina (affects the amount of HP). IVs are calculated using Pokémon level, CP and HP, using these information we are able to calculate the possible IVs for the Pokémon. IVs are fixed and do not change when powering up or evolving, and multiple power up may help in getting. The higher the IVs, the more Combat Points (CP) the Pokémon will have, compared to another Pokémon of the same species & level. For example, the base stats of a pokemon could be 100 attack, 100 defence, and 100 stamina. That would mean that all pokemon of that species has at least 100 in each stat, but with added bonuses, could have up to 115 of all stats. A perfect IV species would therefor have 115 attack, 115 defence, and 115 stamina.
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GoIV would not have been possible without the help and support of the following people:
- Johan Swanberg
- Stuart Dorff
- Kevin Do
- Tommy Tran
- And further thanks to all who contribute to the project on GitHub
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