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CS 4518, C17 Project 3: Recognizing Activities with Android Sensors, (12/100 of course grade)
Due date: Thursday, February 9 by 11.59PM!!

Overview

The aim of this project is to get you familiar with Android Sensors, specifically the activity recognition API. You will also explore SQLite databases and Android Maps. You should do the project in your groups of up to 3 students.


Project Preparation

Step 1: Review Slides for Lectures 9 - 12

Step 2: Review the following tutorial on Activity Recognition

[ How to recognize user activity with activity recognition ]

Step 3: Get Activity Recognition Working

Download the code for the activity recognition tutorial above [ HERE ] . Download it, open it in Android Studio, compile it and get it to run on a real phone. Remember that real phones are required to run sensor code. Study the code.

Project Requirements

You are to develop an app that continously recognizes 4 of the user's activities (walking, running, in vehicle and still). Whenever an activity is recognized, an appropriate picture is displayed and text describing the activity is displayed as well. Additionally, whever the user is walking or running music from an MP3 is played. Display the following images and play music from the following mp3 file for the corresponding activities:

[ In Vehicle ]
[ Running ]
[ Still ]
[ Walking ]
[ beat_02.mp3 ]

Create a local SQLite database to continuously store the start time of each activity along with the activity type. E.g. (12:24, walking).

Whenever a user switches to a new activity, a toast pops up displaying how long the last activity lasted. For instance, if the user was walking and became still, a toast may pop up announcing "You have just walked for 1 min, 36 seconds". Display a map of your current location at the top of the screen. The final app screen should look like the screen below.





Submitting Your Work

Capture a video of your running program. Make sure to double-check that everything works before submitting. Create a zip file containing your code, your APK and MP4 Video (Captured session) files. Submit your zip file using web-based turnin. Do not email me your program or submit it via dropbox.

Before submitting MAKE SURE YOUR PROJECT'S APK FILE RUNS ON YOUR ANDROID PHONE Name your zip file according to the convention LastName1_LastName2_LastName3_hw3.zip, listing all team members' last names. Your submitted zip file for submission should contain the following folders/files:

\team.txt
\src\
\demo.mp4
\hw3.apk

The contents of team.txt should list team members as follows:

Username, Last Name, First Name
emmanuel, Agu, Emmanuel
msmith, Smith, Mary

Phone tested on: Google Nexus 5 Smartphone


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