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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

Handling sensors using the Android sensor framework

The approach described in the previous chapter works if we want to read the pressure and the temperature one shot. In the project we are developing in this chapter, the app has to read the temperature and the pressure continuously. Therefore, it is convenient to use another approach. This approach is the same strategy we implement in Android when the app needs to monitor the smartphone sensors. As you know, nowadays a smartphone has several built-in sensors and to read their values we use the sensor framework provided by Android SDK.

Just to recap briefly how sensor framework works in Android SDK, we can remember that there are key elements that play an important role in these frameworks. These elements are:

  • SensorManager
  • Sensor
  • SensorEvent
  • SensorEventlistener

Luckily, these classes and interfaces are also present in Android...

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