droidconIN Droidcon India 2014
triggering with jerks and falls
by chinmayisk (@csk) on Monday, 27 October 2014
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Objective
To learn how to use a phonefall or a jerk on a phone as trigger points for your android application.
Description
Though android has libraries for most things. It has no public libraries to detect phone movements like a jerk or a fall .There are hardly any API’s to detect and differentiate between a fall and a jerk.We(me and my colleagues) wrote a library recently for one of our apps using the whitepapers available and understanding Physics involved. Hence we will be talking about how you can write one by talking about the following :
1.What are the various sensors available ( including but not limited to accelerometer).
2.The physics involved
3.Determining thresholds.
Speaker bio
I am the founder of Saakshin Technologies and the community lead at The Bachchao Project.
I have been an mobile application programmer for 5-6 years now. I have worked on various mobile platforms
ranging from meego to ios.I have been working on the android platform from 2-3 years now.
Hi Chinmayi, curious is 15 min is enough to cover this topic. Would a full talk be more appropriate?
no i might be a little short of time to cover everything .. but the next slot is 40 mins and that would be too much ..
Here are the slides of the talk
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z7GNrI6aJocg9QzYgKcqx5Kg42WJfgrMRCmA3KDHmds/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p