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Android

Posted by Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

About adding Accelerometer to an Android App

Does anyone knows if the accelerometer file or other sensor services files has to be coded or can be downloaded from a site for example google developers? The thing is that in the Android app example we downloaded from the link in here but I just wondered if there is a site to download default sensor services code.

4 Answers

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Even though I'm fairly sure that there are some kind of android sensor repo's on github, I don't know of any off the top of my head.

Here are two resources that might help.

  1. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/index.html
  2. http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidSensor/article.html

There are samples available for using sensors in the SDK. I haven't played too much with sensors, so let me know what helps you the most!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Rodrigo - If you are still looking for a more detailed answer ...

Then as with most intermediate programming questions, Stackoverflow would be a better fit for this question.

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

If you want to work with other sensors, you'll probably want to read up on them using the link Ernest provided. Here's a direct link to the overview: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_overview.html

Also, there are a lot of example projects from the Android developer site that you can use for reference or copy code from. Here are instructions on how to download them, and then once they're on your computer you just need to import them into Eclipse to view them: http://developer.android.com/tools/samples/index.html

Rodrigo Muñoz
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Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points
Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

This is very much what I was looking for. Thank you guys for the help!