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Varun Nagpal
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Varun Nagpal

Varun Nagpal has been developing mobile apps since 2005 and has developed and contributed to more than 100 professional apps and games on various platforms, such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, and J2ME. Android app development has been his main area of expertise, and he has developed apps for a wide variety of Android devices, such as Android phones, tablets, watches, smart TVs, Android Auto, and Google Glass. He moved to Chicago in late 2013, and since then, he has become a seasoned mobile architect. He has worked in different roles (mobile architect, technical lead, senior developer, and technical consultant) for a variety of various global clients (Allstate, Verizon, AT&T, Sydbank Denmark, SiS Taiwan, Chams PLC Nigeria, and Nandos South Africa) in order to implement their mobile solutions. He has SCJP (Core Java) and SCWD (JSP and Servlets) certifications from Sun Microsystems and MCP (C#) and MCTS (ASP.NET) certifications from Microsoft. You can find his blogs on mobile technology and white papers written by him on his website at http://www.varunnagpal.com/. When he's not working, Varun can be found meditating or playing the flute. He also loves to develop meditation apps and fun games in his free time. He has developed about 40 meditation apps and games available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Creative.Software.Studio) and the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/creative-software-studio/id574745824) under the name of Creative Software Studio, his part-time start-up company (http://creativesoftwarestudio.com/).
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The automatic torch light and screen brightness app requirements


As a learning assignment for this chapter, we will be developing a small application that will make use of the light and proximity sensor in the phone to turn on and turn off the flash light and adjust the screen brightness. This app will be running in the foreground Android activity and will start processing the sensor values on onResume() and will stop on onPause(). We will have the separate activity for each proximity sensor and light sensor, and both will work independently. The following are the high-level requirements for the automatic torch light application:

  1. Create an Android activity to process the proximity sensor values.
  2. Whenever any object comes close to the phone (the proximity sensor gives the near value), turn on the flashlight, and whenever that object goes away from the phone (the proximity sensor gives the far value), then turn off the flashlight.
  3. Create an Android activity to process the light sensor values...
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Varun Nagpal has been developing mobile apps since 2005 and has developed and contributed to more than 100 professional apps and games on various platforms, such as Android, iOS, Blackberry, and J2ME. Android app development has been his main area of expertise, and he has developed apps for a wide variety of Android devices, such as Android phones, tablets, watches, smart TVs, Android Auto, and Google Glass. He moved to Chicago in late 2013, and since then, he has become a seasoned mobile architect. He has worked in different roles (mobile architect, technical lead, senior developer, and technical consultant) for a variety of various global clients (Allstate, Verizon, AT&T, Sydbank Denmark, SiS Taiwan, Chams PLC Nigeria, and Nandos South Africa) in order to implement their mobile solutions. He has SCJP (Core Java) and SCWD (JSP and Servlets) certifications from Sun Microsystems and MCP (C#) and MCTS (ASP.NET) certifications from Microsoft. You can find his blogs on mobile technology and white papers written by him on his website at http://www.varunnagpal.com/. When he's not working, Varun can be found meditating or playing the flute. He also loves to develop meditation apps and fun games in his free time. He has developed about 40 meditation apps and games available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Creative.Software.Studio) and the Apple App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/creative-software-studio/id574745824) under the name of Creative Software Studio, his part-time start-up company (http://creativesoftwarestudio.com/).
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