Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

Collecting data from a mobile phone

This section describes the first three steps from the plan. If you want to directly work with the data, you can just skip this section and continue to the following Building a classifier section. There are many open source mobile apps for sensor data collection, including an app by Prof. Campbell that we will use in this chapter. The application implements the essentials to collect sensor data for different activity classes, for example, standing, walking, running, and others.

Let's start by preparing the Android development environment. If you have already installed it, jump to the Loading the data collector section.

Installing Android Studio

Android Studio is a development environment for Android platform. We ...