Android Jogging App - Part 3

Introduction

Hello :) and welcome to part 3 of my jogging application side project.

This time I decided to implement the sensor event listener.

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Setting up the sensor event listener

First for logging purposes I added a TAG variable to MainActivity.

private val TAG = "MainActivity"

Once the Activity Recognition permission is granted/not needed I then call the following method:

initializeStepCounterListener()

This method bascially initializes the listener for the step counter:

 private fun initializeStepCounterListener() {
    val sensorManager = getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE) as SensorManager
    val stepCounterSensor = sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_STEP_COUNTER)

    stepCounterSensor ?: return


    sensorManager.registerListener(this@MainActivity, stepCounterSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST,)
}

The above basically gets the manager and the sensor, then if the sensor is not null the listener is registered. Because I want it as close to real time as possible I use "SNSOR_DELAY_FASTEST" to get data as fast as possible.

Next I needed to add the listener to the MainActivity:

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), OnMapReadyCallback, SensorEventListener {

Then I had to implement the events which are "onAccuracyChanged" and "onSensorChanged":

 override fun onAccuracyChanged(sensor: Sensor?, accuracy: Int) {
    Log.d(TAG, "onAccuracyChanged: sensor: $sensor; accuracy: $accuracy")
 }

onAccuracyChanged is called when the accuracy of the registered sensor has changed.
Here I just log the event.

override fun onSensorChanged(event: SensorEvent?) {
    event ?: return

    event.values.firstOrNull()?.let {
        Log.d(TAG, "Steps: $it")
    }
}

onSensorChanged is called when there is a new sensor event.
Here I check if there is actually an event and then loop the values and log the output.

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Conclusion

Short and sweet, still a newb when it comes to Kotlin but it's fun learning as I go along.

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Things learnt

Kotlin

?: - Checks to make sure the variable is not null

firstOrNull - Returns the first element, or null if the array is empty.

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