Add Vibes to the Earthquake App
How much we know and care about earthquakes and the alert systems that are used to warn people about them probably depends on where you live and what kind of incident history your area has. Clearly the earthquake app we’ve developed so far has educational value and is not designed as a warning system. Wouldn’t it be great, though, if we could keep the app running and receive a notification when a new earthquake incident is reported? Maybe, but we have neither the time nor the attention span to keep looking at our device screen, so let’s use a very familiar feedback device built into our Android, the tiny DC motor that makes it vibrate.
We can take this quite literal translation from Earth’s vibrations to device ...
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