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Android Sensor Programming By Example. Click here to enter text

Android Sensor Programming By Example. Click here to enter text

Varun Nagpal

Ebook
Android phones available in today’s market have a wide variety of powerful and highly precise sensors. Interesting applications can be built with them such as a local weather app using weather sensors, analyzing risky driving behavior using motion sensors, a fitness tracker using step-counter sensors, and so on. Sensors in external devices such as Android Watch, Body Analyzer & Weight Machine, Running Speed Cell, and so on can also be connected and used from your Android app running on your phone.
Moving further, this book will provide the skills required to use sensors in your Android applications. It will walk you through all the fundamentals of sensors and will provide a thorough understanding of the Android Sensor Framework. You will also get to learn how to write code for the supportive infrastructure such as background services, scheduled and long running background threads, and databases for saving sensor data. Additionally, you will learn how to connect and use sensors in external devices from your Android app using the Google Fit platform.
By the end of the book, you will be well versed in the use of Android sensors and programming to build interactive applications.
  • 1. Sensor Fundamentals
  • 2. Starting to play with Sensors
  • 3. Environmental Sensors (Weather Utility App)
  • 4. Light and Proximity Sensors
  • 5. Motion, Position and Fingerprint Sensors
  • 6. Step Counter & Detector Sensors (Pedometer App)
  • 7. Google Fit Platform and APIs (Fitness Tracker App)
  • 8. Bonus Chapter: Sensor Fusion and Sensors Based APIs (Driving Events Detection App)
  • Title: Android Sensor Programming By Example. Click here to enter text
  • Author: Varun Nagpal
  • Original title: Android Sensor Programming By Example. Click here to enter text.
  • ISBN: 9781785284663, 9781785284663
  • Date of issue: 2016-04-29
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3cn5
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing