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Android Sensor Programming By Example

You're reading from   Android Sensor Programming By Example Take your Android applications to the next level of interactivity by exploring the wide variety of Android sensors

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285509
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Varun Nagpal Varun Nagpal
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Preface 1. Sensor Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Playing with Sensors 3. The Environmental Sensors – The Weather Utility App 4. The Light and Proximity Sensors 5. The Motion, Position, and Fingerprint Sensors 6. The Step Counter and Detector Sensors – The Pedometer App 7. The Google Fit Platform and APIs – The Fitness Tracker App

Time for action – using the temperature sensor

In this section, we will get the ambient temperature from the phone temperature sensor and will show it in the foreground activity. Before accessing the value for ambient temperature, we will also check the availability of the temperature sensor on the device.

  1. We created a TemperatureActivity and implemented it with the SensorEventListener interface so that it receives the ambient temperature values. We are also checking if the ambient temperature is available on the device and are maintaining the availability state using the isSensorPresent Boolean variable. If the temperature sensor is not present, then we show the relevant message using  TextView. The following code snippet shows the necessary steps:

            public class TemperatureActivity extends Activity 
            implements SensorEventListener{ 
     
              private SensorManager mSensorManager; 
              private Sensor mSensor; 
              private boolean...
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