Understanding Sensor-Framework on Android:

What Android provides… What users demand…

…& how to write your app to get the most out of it!

Outline

A brief introduction to Sensor-Framework on Android:

• Introduction to sensor hardware.
  (Accelerometer, Gyroscope, compass, temperature, barometer, light/proximity sensor)

• Control & Data-flow from the h/w ↔ Kernel ↔ Userspace.

How-To:

• Harness the power of sensors in your Android-application.

• Provide uniform UX across multiple devices when developing sensor-based Apps.

• Implement Sensor-fusion in your Android-app.

• Reduce power consumption of sensors h/w.

Speaker bio

2600Hertz.wordpress.com/about

Links

• http://TheCodeArtist.blogspot.com/search/label/Sensors

Slides

http://TheCodeArtist.blogspot.com/2011/11/sensors-on-android-droidcon2011.html