java - How to read Heart rate from Android Wear

Question

I need to read the heart rate of the user at that instant. I tried using this code located in my main activity in the Wear project.

public class MainActivity extends WearableActivity implements SensorEventListener {

    private static final String TAG = "MainActivity";
    private TextView mTextViewHeart;
    SensorManager mSensorManager;
    Sensor mHeartRateSensor;
    SensorEventListener sensorEventListener;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mTextViewHeart = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.heart);
        mSensorManager = ((SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE));
        mHeartRateSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_HEART_RATE);
        mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mHeartRateSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
        Log.i(TAG, "LISTENER REGISTERED.");
        mTextViewHeart.setText("Something here");


        mSensorManager.registerListener(sensorEventListener, mHeartRateSensor, mSensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST);
    }


    public void onResume(){
        super.onResume();
    }

    public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {
        Log.d(TAG, "onAccuracyChanged - accuracy: " + accuracy);
    }

    public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {
        if (event.sensor.getType() == Sensor.TYPE_HEART_RATE) {
            String msg = "" + (int)event.values[0];
            mTextViewHeart.setText(msg);
            Log.d(TAG, msg);
        }
        else
            Log.d(TAG, "Unknown sensor type");
    }

}

This code is simply not working, giving me an error saying:

E/SensorManager﹕ sensor or listener is null

It works fine if I use anything else but the heart rate sensor.

I am using:

• LG G4 with android API level 23
• LG Urbane watch (Which I know has a heart rate sensor) with Wear API level 23

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I faced the same problem as you can see in this question. We have the same wear devices, so I'm almost sure that you have missed this on your wear AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BODY_SENSORS" />

Also, your should go to Permissions in Settings in order to check if that permission is enabled.

You can check my project on GitHub, which is working for now.