Android library monitoring hardware sensors with RxJava Observables.
Library is compatible with RxJava 1.+ and RxAndroid 1.+ and uses them under the hood.
min sdk version = 9
JavaDoc is available at: http://pwittchen.github.io/ReactiveSensors/
Code sample below demonstrates how to observe Gyroscope sensor.
Please note that we are filtering events occuring when sensor readings change with ReactiveSensorFilter.filterSensorChanged() method. There's also event describing change of sensor's accuracy, which can be filtered with ReactiveSensorFilter.filterAccuracyChanged() method. When we don't apply any filter, we will be notified both about sensor readings and accuracy changes.
new ReactiveSensors(context).observeSensor(Sensor.TYPE_GYROSCOPE)
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.computation())
.filter(ReactiveSensorFilter.filterSensorChanged())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Action1<ReactiveSensorEvent>() {
@Override public void call(ReactiveSensorEvent reactiveSensorEvent) {
SensorEvent event = reactiveSensorEvent.getSensorEvent();
float x = event.values[0];
float y = event.values[1];
float z = event.values[2];
String message = String.format("x = %f, y = %f, z = %f", x, y, z);
Log.d("gyroscope readings", message);
}
});
}We can observe any hardware sensor in the same way. You can check list of all sensors in official Android documentation. To get list of all sensors available on the current device, you can use getSensors() method available in ReactiveSensors class.
Default sampling period for observable below is set to SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL.
Observable<ReactiveSensorEvent> observeSensor(int sensorType)We can configure sampling period according to our needs with the following observable:
Observable<ReactiveSensorEvent> observeSensor(int sensorType,
final int samplingPeriodInUs)We can use predefined values available in SensorManager class from Android SDK:
int SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST- get sensor data as fast as possibleint SENSOR_DELAY_GAME- rate suitable for gamesint SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL- rate (default) suitable for screen orientation changesint SENSOR_DELAY_UI- rate suitable for the user interface
We can also define our own integer value in microseconds, but it's recommended to use predefined values.
Exemplary application, which gets readings of various sensors is located in app directory of this repository. You can easily change SENSOR_TYPE variable to read values from a different sensor in a given samples.
If you are interested in library usage with Kotlin, check sample in app-kotlin directory.
We should check whether device has concrete sensor before we start observing it.
We can do it in the following way:
if (reactiveSensors.hasSensor(SENSOR_TYPE)) {
// observe sensor
} else {
// show error message
}We can let our subscription crash and handle situation when device does not have given sensor in onError(throwable) method implementation of the Subscriber. Other types of errors can be handled there as well.
new ReactiveSensors(context).observeSensor(Sensor.TYPE_GYROSCOPE)
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.computation())
.filter(ReactiveSensorFilter.filterSensorChanged())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Subscriber<ReactiveSensorEvent>() {
@Override public void onCompleted() {
// subscription completed
}
@Override public void onError(Throwable throwable) {
if (throwable instanceof SensorNotFoundException) {
// device does not have given sensor - show error message
} else {
// handle other types of errors
}
}
@Override public void onNext(ReactiveSensorEvent event) {
// handle event
}
});When we are using subscriptions in Activity, we should subscribe them in onResume() method and unsubscribe them in onPause() method.
When we want to receive only sensor updates, we should use ReactiveSensorFilter.filterSensorChanged() method in filter(...) method from RxJava.
When we want to receive only accuracy updates, we should use ReactiveSensorFilter.filterAccuracyChanged() method in filter(...) method from RxJava.
If we don't apply any filter, we will receive both accuracy and sensor readings updates.
See also Best Practices for Accessing and Using Sensors.
You can depend on the library through Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.pwittchen</groupId>
<artifactId>reactivesensors</artifactId>
<version>0.1.2</version>
</dependency>or through Gradle:
dependencies {
compile 'com.github.pwittchen:reactivesensors:0.1.2'
}Tests are available in library/src/androidTest/java/ directory and can be executed on emulator or Android device from Android Studio or CLI with the following command:
./gradlew connectedCheck
Code style used in the project is called SquareAndroid from Java Code Styles repository by Square available at: https://github.com/square/java-code-styles. Currently, library doesn't have checkstyle verification attached. It can be done in the future.
Static code analysis runs Checkstyle, FindBugs, PMD and Lint. It can be executed with command:
./gradlew check
Reports from analysis are generated in library/build/reports/ directory.
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