Chapter 14. Bluetooth and sensors

This chapter covers

  • Connecting to a Bluetooth peripheral
  • Interacting with the SensorManager
  • Building and running the SenseBot application

The majority of the material presented in this book is concerned with employing various capabilities of the Android SDK. At this point, however, you’re going to see how to take advantage of an Android device’s hardware. Specifically, we’ll look at connecting an Android device to remote devices via a Bluetooth wireless connection, as well as reading and interpreting values from a hardware-based orientation sensor. This chapter combines these two hardware-related topics in a sample program that exercises control over a robot constructed from the popular LEGO Mind-storms NXT. ...

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