Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-aware, and XR Applications Using Processing

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A. ColubriProcessing for Androidhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9585-4_8

8. Driving Graphics and Sound with Sensor Data

Andrés Colubri¹  

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University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

 

With the basics of reading sensor data already covered in the previous chapter, we will now learn how to use data from the accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope to generate interactive graphics and sound in our Processing sketches.

Using Ketai to Read Sensor Data

The sensors available in an Android device give us plenty of data about the surroundings of the device. We saw how we can retrieve this data by using either the Android API or the Ketai library, with the ...