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Android Things Projects

You're reading from   Android Things Projects Efficiently build IoT projects with Android Things

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289246
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Azzola Francesco Azzola
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Android Things 2. Creating an Alarm System Using Android Things FREE CHAPTER 3. How to Make an Environmental Monitoring System 4. Integrate Android Things with IoT Cloud Platforms 5. Create a Smart System to Control Ambient Light 6. Remote Weather Station 7. Build a Spying Eye 8. Android with Android Things

Putting it all together - acquiring data


It is time to put everything together and start acquiring data. By now, we have implemented:

  • Two sensor listeners to listen to the new values
  • The listener to know when the sensor is connected to the board

Let us glue all the pieces and make our app work. Open MainActivity.java again and in the onCreate method add the following lines:

callback = new BMX280Callback(); sensorManager.registerDynamicSensorCallback(callback); try {
  mySensorDriver =
  new Bmx280SensorDriver(BoardPins.getSDAPin());
  mySensorDriver.registerTemperatureSensor();
  mySensorDriver.registerPressureSensor();
}
catch(Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace();
}

Where mySensorDriver is an instance of Bmx280SensorDriver that handles the communication details to the BMP280/BME280. Notice that as we described in the previous chapter, to make the app independent from the board we did not directly use the SDA pin identification, but we have used a method to retrieve the pin name according to the...

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