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Android: Meter

Barely a few hours, I've posted my first application developed for Android. Android certainly needs no introduction to readers who end up reading this blog. The famous Google operating system for mobile phones, free, open source and Linux is based on giving a lot of talk on blogs and websites on technology topics.

few months ago, I downloaded the tool kit for developers interested in creating applications for Android (or just make some tests). After some initial tests, as the traditional "Hello World" or copied and modified examples from tutorials, I've been slowly feeling a heightened interest in this environment, and the possibilities it offers, both Android itself as smartphones or high-end phones that little by little they are looking increasingly to a personal computer in terms of features and possibilities.



The first fruit of hours spent, is an application that shows the orientation of your reading based on data provided by the acceleration sensor. From these data, we can obtain the slope (both frontal and side) thereof. The plot thickens a bit to add a calibration option (set to zero). This has forced me to review questions of algebra and geometry that took me some time into oblivion.

Although the main objective is to use your phone as a flag in 4x4 vehicles can be used in any context that requires measures of angles.



As commentary, so I've learned to look for references on these instruments, it seems that were popularized in the mid 80's by the house 4x4 Toyota. For those
concerned, the application is available on Android Market and can be easily accessed through its QR code :



Update (09/16/2010) :
leave some links to sites in which shows the programs available in the Android Market, with reference being made to this application: AppBrain , AndroLib , AndroidPIT , AndroidZoom and even PCWorld.

Update (10/08/2010) :
Recently the application has been updated to version 1.0.1. The update includes translations into several languages, plus support for Android 1.5 (version 1.0.0 Android required at least 1.6). In fact, the picture you can see the application running on a terminal DSTL1 GeneralMobile Android 1.5.