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Getting started with Udoo

By : Emanuele Palazzetti

4.8 (4)

Getting started with Udoo

4.8 (4)

By: Emanuele Palazzetti

Overview of this book

If you are an Android developer who wants to learn how to use UDOO to build Android applications that are capable of interacting with their surrounding environment, then this book is ideal for you. Learning UDOO is the next great step to start building your first real-world prototypes powered by the Android operating system.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Turn On the Engines

1. Turn On the Engines

Introducing the UDOO platform

Downloading and installing Android

Setting up the development environment

Running your first Android application

Summary

2. Know Your Tools

2. Know Your Tools

Introducing Arduino Due capabilities

Interacting with the real world

Fast prototyping a circuit

Summary

3. Testing Your Physical Application

3. Testing Your Physical Application

Building a testable circuit

Developing a diagnostic mode

Summary

4. Using Sensors to Listen to the Environment

4. Using Sensors to Listen to the Environment

Working with environment sensors

Building a heartbeat monitor

Collecting data from the sketch

Android for data visualization

Enhancing the prototype

Summary

5. Managing Interactions with Physical Components

5. Managing Interactions with Physical Components

Managing user interactions

Building a web radio with physical interaction

Streaming audio from Android applications

Improving the prototype

Summary

6. Building a Chronotherm for Home Automation

6. Building a Chronotherm for Home Automation

Home automation

Building a chronotherm circuit

Managing the chronotherm through Android

Improving the prototype

Summary

7. Using Android APIs for Human Interaction

7. Using Android APIs for Human Interaction

Extending prototypes with Android APIs

Improving user settings

Implementing voice recognition

Improving user interaction with voice synthesis

Summary

8. Adding Network Capabilities

8. Adding Network Capabilities

Extending Chronotherm with network capabilities

Collecting weather forecast data

Improving the boiler with an antifreeze check

Summary

Index

Index

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Improving user interaction with voice synthesis

Even if the Chronotherm application is working correctly, we have at least one more thing to do: providing proper feedback to let users know the action that was taken. Indeed, both activities fail to provide any visual feedback about what the recognized input is; for this reason, we decided to introduce the voice synthesis API within the initial design.

Because we want to share the synthesis procedure across different activities, we could create a manager that abstracts the synthesis API with a common initialization. The idea is to provide a class that exposes the method to start voice recognition with the given string; we implement it in the following steps:

Create the VoiceManager class inside the voice package.
Initialize the class with the following code:
```
public class VoiceManager implements TextToSpeech.OnInitListener {
  private TextToSpeech mTts;
  //...
}
```
This class implements the OnInitListener interface that defines the callback that should...

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