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Interesting applications can be built with them, such as
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and so on. Sensors in external devices such as an
Android watch, a body analyzer, and a weight machine,
and so on can also be connected and used from your
Android app running on your phone.
Moving further, this book will provide the skills required
to use sensors with your Android applications. It will walk
you through all the fundamentals of sensors and will
provide a thorough understanding of the Android sensor
framework. You will also get to learn how to write code for
the supportive infrastructure such as background services,
scheduled and long-running background threads, and
databases for saving sensor data. Additionally, you will
learn how to connect and use sensors with external devices
from your Android app using the Google Fit platform.
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use of Android sensors and programming to build
interactive applications.

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for the weakness of one sensor by using the
strength of another
Build a variety of sensor-based, real-world
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compass, driving events detection, fitness
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up sensors, wake locks, and how to use
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About the Author

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:
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the name of Creative Software Studio, his part-time start-up company (http://creatives
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Preface
Welcome to Android Sensor Programming By Example. This book will provide you the skills
required to use sensors in your Android applications. It will walk you through all the
fundamentals of sensors and will provide a thorough understanding of the Android Sensor
Framework. This book will cover a wide variety of sensors available on the Android
Platform. You will learn how to write code for the infrastructure (service, threads, database)
required to process high volumes of sensor data. This book will also teach you how to
connect and use sensors in external devices (such as Android Wear) from the Android app
using the Google Fit platform.
You will learn from many real-world sensor-based applications such, as the Pedometer app
to detect daily steps, the Weather app to detect temperature, altitude, absolute and
humidity, the Driving app to detect risky driving behavior, and the Fitness tracker app to
track heart rate, weight, daily steps, and calories burned.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Sensor Fundamentals, provides you a thorough understanding of the

fundamentals and framework of Android sensors. It walks you through the different types
of sensors and the sensor coordinate system in detail.
Chapter 2, Playing with Sensors, guides you through various classes, callbacks, and APIs of

the Android Sensor framework. It walks you through a sample application, which provides
a list of available sensors and their values and individual capabilities, such as the range of
values, power consumption, minimum time interval, and so on.
Chapter 3, The Environmental Sensors The Weather Utility App, explains the usage of

various environment sensors. We develop a weather utility app to compute altitude,

absolute humidity, and dew point using temperature, pressure, and relative humidity
sensors.
Chapter 4, The Light and Proximity Sensors, teaches you how to use proximity and light

sensors. It explains the difference between wakeup and non-wakeup sensors and explains
the concept of the hardware FIFO sensor queue. As a learning exercise, we develop a small
application that turns on/off a flashlight using a proximity sensor, and it also adjusts screen
brightness using a light sensor.

Preface

Chapter 5, The Motion, Position, and Fingerprint Sensors, explains the working principle of

motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, linear acceleration, gravity, and significant

motion), position sensors (magnetometer and orientation), and the fingerprint sensor. We
learn the implementation of these sensors with the help of three examples. The first
example explains how to use the accelerometer sensor to detect phone shake. The second
example teaches how to use the orientation, magnetometer, and accelerometer sensors to
build a compass, and in the third example, we learn how to use the fingerprint sensor to
authenticate a user.

Chapter 6, The Step Counter and Detector Sensors The Pedometer App, explains how to use

the step detector and step counter sensors. Through a real-world pedometer application, we
learn how to analyze and process the accelerometer and step detector sensor data to
develop an algorithm for detecting the type of step (walking, jogging, sprinting). We also
look at how to drive the pedometer data matrix (total steps, distance, duration, average
speed, average step frequency, calories burned, and type of step) from the sensor data.
Chapter 7, The Google Fit Platform and APIs The Fitness Tracker App, introduces you to the

new Google Fit platform. It walks you through the different APIs provided by the Google
Fit platform and explains how to request automated collection and storage of sensor data in
a battery-efficient manner without the app being alive in the background all the time. As a
learning exercise, we develop a fitness tracker application that collects and processes the
fitness sensor data, including the sensor data obtained from remotely connected Android
Wear devices.
Bonus Chapter, Sensor Fusion and Sensor Based APIs (the Driving Events Detection App),
guides you through the working principle of sensor-based Android APIs (activity
recognition, geo-fence, and fused location) and teaches you various aspects of sensor fusion.
Through a real-world application, you will learn how to use multiple sensors along with
input from sensor-based APIs to detect risky driving behavior. Through the same
application, you will also learn how to develop the infrastructure (service, threads, and
database) required to process high volumes of sensor data in the background for a longer
duration of time. This chapter is available online at the link https://www.packtpub.com/
sites/default/files/downloads/SensorFusionandSensorBasedAPIs_TheDriving
EventDetectionApp_OnlineChapter.pdf

The Light and Proximity

Sensors
In this chapter, we will learn about proximity and light sensors, and we will develop a small
application using them. We will also learn about the concepts of wake locks and wakeup
and non-wakeup sensors. We will understand the hardware sensor FIFO queue and what
happens to sensors when the application processor goes into suspended mode.
You will learn the following things in this chapter:
Understanding the light and proximity sensors.
Understanding requirements for the automatic torchlight and screen brightness
app.
How to use the proximity sensor in the phone and turn phone's flashlight off and
on.
How to use the phone's light sensor and adjust the screen brightness.
What are wake locks and how should we use them?
What are wakeup and non-wakeup sensors, and what is the hardware FIFO
sensor queue?

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Understanding the light and proximity

sensors
The light sensor is a part of the environmental sensors, and the proximity sensor is a part of
the positional sensors for Android. Both light and proximity sensors can be found in almost
every Android device today. The light sensor is responsible for measuring the illuminance
in lux. Illuminance is the amount of light striking a surface. It is also known as incident
light, where the incident is the beam of light actually landing on the surface.
The proximity sensor measures the proximity of any object near the screen. There are two
types of proximity sensor found on Android devices.
The first type of the proximity sensor provides the absolute distance in
centimetres between the object and the phone. There are very few phones which
support this type of proximity sensor.
The second type of sensor gives only two values in form of integers, which
represents the proximity of the object from the phone. When the object is near,
then the value is 0, while when the object is far, then the value is the maximum
range of the proximity sensor, which generally lies between 5 to 20 centimeters.
For example, the Samsung Galaxy S5 has the far value of 8, while the LG Nexus 5
has the far value of 5.

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Most Android devices have the same hardware, which works for both light and proximity
sensors, but Android still treats them as logically separate sensors. It depends on whether
the individual OEMs (Original Equipment Manufactures) have a single hardware or two
separate hardware to support both the logical sensors.
The light and proximity sensor is generally located on the top right-hand section of the
phone, a few millimetres to the right of the earpiece. You have to look very carefully to spot
the sensor as it's barely visible because of its small size. Generally, it's a pair of small black
holes covered under the screen. Some OEMs might choose a different location for the light
and proximity sensor, but mostly it will be on the top edge of the phone. For example,
Samsung Galaxy S devices have them on the right-hand side of the earpiece, while HTC
Android devices have them on the left-hand side of the earpiece.

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.
4. Whenever the phone enters any dark area, increase the screen brightness of the
phone, and when the phone goes back to a lighted area, decrease the screen
brightness.

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Time for action turning the torch light on

and off using the proximity sensor
In this section, we will be learning how to use the proximity sensor to turn the camera flash
light on and off. As discussed earlier, most proximity sensors return the absolute distance in
cm, but some return only the near and far values. The near value is 0 and the far value is the
maximum range of the proximity sensor. There are a lot of common use cases for proximity
sensors, such as to turn off the screen while the user is on a call, or to detect if the phone is
inside the pocket or outside. For our example, we will be turning the camera flashlight on
whenever any object comes near the phone screen and turning it off when the object goes
far from the phone screen. The proximity sensor has on-change reporting mode, the details
of reporting modes are explained in Chapter 1, Sensor Fundamentals. It is fired as soon as
the proximity of the object near the phone changes.
The following code shows how to use the proximity sensor to turn the camera flash light on
or off.
1. We created a ProximitySensorActivity and followed the standard steps to
get values from the sensor, which are implementing the SensorEventListener
interface, initiating the SensorManager and Sensor Objects, and checking the
availability of the sensors. We also declared the Camera, SurfaceTexture,
and Paramters objects required for the camera flashlight to work. We also called
the custom initCameraFlashlight() method from onCreate() to initialize
the required camera objects:
public class ProximitySensorActivity extends Activity implements
SensorEventListener{
private
private
private
private
private
private
private
private

SensorManager mSensorManager;
Sensor mSensor;
boolean isSensorPresent;
float distanceFromPhone;
Camera mCamera;
SurfaceTexture mPreviewTexture;
Camera.Parameters mParameters;
boolean isFlashLightOn = false;

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.proximitysensor_layout);
mSensorManager = (SensorManager)this.getSystemService
(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
if(mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_PROXIMITY)

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!= null) {
mSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor
(Sensor.TYPE_PROXIMITY);
isSensorPresent = true;
} else {
isSensorPresent = false;
}
initCameraFlashLight();
}

2. As a best practice, we registered the listener in the onResume() method and unregistered it in the onPause() method. Inside the
custom initCameraFlashlight() method, we initialized
the Camera, SurfaceTexture, and Paramters objects required for turning on
the flashlight. In the onDestroy() method of the activity, we released
the Camera object and set all the initialized object references to null:
@Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
if(isSensorPresent) {
mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mSensor,
SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
}
}
@Override
protected void onPause() {
super.onPause();
if(isSensorPresent) {
mSensorManager.unregisterListener(this);
}
}
public void initCameraFlashLight()
{
mCamera = Camera.open();
mParameters = mCamera.getParameters();
mPreviewTexture = new SurfaceTexture(0);
try {
mCamera.setPreviewTexture(mPreviewTexture);
} catch (IOException ex) {
Log.e(TAG, ex.getLocalizedMessage());
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
getResources().getText(R.string.error_message),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

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}
}
@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
mSensorManager = null;
mSensor = null;
mCamera.release();
mCamera = null;
}

3. After initiating SurfaceTexture, camera, and sensors, we will now write our
core logic for the app. In our custom turnTorchLightOn() method, we start the
flash light by setting the flash mode to FLASH_MODE_TORCH for the camera
parameters and starting the camera preview. Similarly, in the
custom turnTorchLightOff() method, we stop the flash light by setting the
flash mode to FLASH_MODE_OFF for the camera parameters and stopping the
camera preview. Now, we call these methods from the onSensorChanged()
method, depending on the distance of any object from the proximity sensor. If the
distance of any object from the phone's proximity sensor is less than the
maximum range of the proximity sensor, then we consider the object to be near
and call the custom turnTorchLighOn() method; however, if the distance is
equal to or greater than the range of the proximity sensor, we consider the object
is far and call the turnTorchLightOff() method. We use the isFlashLightOn
Boolean variable to maintain the on/off states of the flashlight:
public void turnTorchLightOn()
{
mParameters.setFlashMode(Camera.Parameters.FLASH_MODE_TORCH);
mCamera.setParameters(mParameters);
mCamera.startPreview();
isFlashLightOn = true;
}
public void turnTorchLightOff()
{
mParameters.setFlashMode(mParameters.FLASH_MODE_OFF);
mCamera.setParameters(mParameters);
mCamera.stopPreview();
isFlashLightOn = false;
}
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {
distanceFromPhone = event.values[0];

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if(distanceFromPhone < mSensor.getMaximumRange()) {
if(!isFlashLightOn) {
turnTorchLightOn();
}
} else {
if(isFlashLightOn) {
turnTorchLightOff();
}
}
}

What just happened?

We used the standard steps for getting values from the proximity sensor and then used
these values to turn on and off the camera flashlight in the phone. If any object comes
within the range of the proximity sensor, it will turn on the flashlight; when the object goes
away from its range, it will turn off the flashlight. You can determine a sensor's maximum
range by using the getMaximumRange() method on the proximity sensor object.

Time for action adjusting the screen

brightness using the light sensor
One of the most common use cases for the light sensor is to adjust the screen brightness
according to the external lighting conditions. The maximum range of the light sensor might
be different on different Android devices, but most of them support from 0 lux to several
thousand lux. Lux is the standard unit for measuring the luminance of the light falling on a
surface. For our example, we will use a range from 0 to 100 lux, as normal indoor lighting
falls within this range. But for sunlight and strong lights the range can go up to 1,000 lux or
more. In the sample app, we will increase the screen brightness, when the indoor lighting
goes low, and similarly we will decrease the screen brightness when it goes high.
1. We followed the standard steps to get values from the sensor. We select the
sensor type to the TYPE_LIGHT in the getDefaultSensor() method
of SensorManager. We also called the custom initScreenBrightness()
method from onCreate() to initialize the required content resolver and current
window objects:
public class LightSensorActivity extends Activity implements
SensorEventListener{

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private
private
private
private
private

SensorManager mSensorManager;
Sensor mSensor;
boolean isSensorPresent;
ContentResolver mContentResolver;
Window mWindow;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.lightsensor_layout);
mSensorManager = (SensorManager)this.getSystemService
(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
if(mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_LIGHT) != null)
{
mSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_LIGHT);
isSensorPresent = true;
} else {
isSensorPresent = false;
}
initScreenBrightness();
}

2. As a standard practice, we registered the listener in the onResume() method and

un-registered it in the onPause() method. Inside the
custom initScreenBrightness() method, we initialized
the ContentResolver and Window objects. The ContentResolver provides a
handle to the system settings and the Window object provides the access to the
current visible window. In the onDestroy() method of the activity, we change
all the initialized objects references to null:
@Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
if(isSensorPresent) {
mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mSensor,
SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
}
}
@Override
protected void onPause() {
super.onPause();
if(isSensorPresent) {
mSensorManager.unregisterListener(this);
}
}

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public void initScreenBrightness()
{
mContentResolver = getContentResolver();
mWindow = getWindow();
}
@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
mSensorManager = null;
mSensor = null;
mContentResolver = null;
mWindow = null;
}

3. As discussed earlier, we will use a light range from 0 to 100 lux for our example.
We will be adjusting the brightness for two objects: one for the current visible
window (for which the brightness value lies between 0 and 1), and the second for
the system preference (for which the brightness value lies between 0 and 255). In
order to use the common brightness value for both the objects, we will stick to a
value between 0 and 1, and for system brightness we will scale up by multiplying
it by 255. Since we have to increase the screen brightness, as the outside
lightening goes low and vice versa, we take the inverse of the light sensor values.
Also to keep the range of the brightness value between 0 and 1, we use only light
values between 0 and 100. We pass on the inverse of light values obtained from
the light sensor in the onSensorChanged() method, as an argument to our
custom changeScreenBrightness() method to update the current window
and system screen brightness:
public void changeScreenBrightness(float brightness)
{
//system setting brightness values ranges between 0-255
//We scale up by multiplying by 255
//This change brightness for over all system settings
System.putInt(mContentResolver, System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS, (int)
(brightness*255));
//screen brightness values ranges between 0 - 1
//This only changes brightness for the current window
LayoutParams mLayoutParams = mWindow.getAttributes();
mLayoutParams.screenBrightness = brightness;
mWindow.setAttributes(mLayoutParams);
}
@Override
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {

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float light = event.values[0];
//We only use light sensor value between 0 - 100
//Before sending, we take the inverse of the value
//So that they remain in range of 0 - 1
if(light>0 && light<100) {
changeScreenBrightness(1/light);
}
}

The app needs to have following three permissions to run the previous two examples:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FLASHLIGHT"
/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />

The camera permission is required to access the camera object, flashlight permission is
required to turn on and turn off the flashlight, and the write settings permission is required
to change any system settings.

What just happened?

We used light luminance values in lux (coming from the light sensor) to adjust the screen
brightness. When it is very dark (almost no light), then the light sensor provides very low
sensor values. When we send this low light sensor value (the minimum possible value
being 1) to the changeScreenBrightness()method, then it makes the screen the brightest
by taking the inverse (which is again 1) of the light sensor value and scaling up by
multiplying it by 255 (1 * 255 = 255 brightness value). Similarly, under good lighting
conditions, when we send a high sensor value (the maximum possible value being 99 in our
case), then it makes the screen as dim as possible by taking the inverse (1/99=0.01) of the
light sensor value and scaling up by multiplying it by 255 (0.01 * 255 = 2.55 brightness
value). One of the easiest ways to test this app is to cover the light sensor with your hand or
any opaque object. By doing this, you will observe that when you cover the light sensor, the
screen becomes bright, and when you remove the cover, it becomes dim.

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Wake locks, wakeup sensors, and the FIFO

queue
All Android applications run on a dedicated Application Processor (AP), which is a part of
the main CPU of the phone. This application processor is designed in such a way that it
goes into the suspended mode when the user is not interacting with the phone. In this
suspended mode, it reduces the power consumption by 10 times or more, but this freezes all
the applications in the background. To work around this problem, the Android platform
provides a solution using wake locks. If an application has to perform some important
operation in the background and doesn't want the application processor to go into
suspended mode, then it has to request a wake lock from the system's power service. Once
the important operation is completed, it should release the wake lock. Wake lock can be
obtained using the PowerManager object, which is provided by the system power service.
The newWakeLock() method of PowerManager provides the object of wake lock. This
newWakeLock() method accepts the type of wake lock and string tag for identification
purposes. Once the wake lock object is instantiated, we need to call the acquire() method
of the wake lock object to make it active and the release() method to make it inactive.
The following code snippet shows how to acquire and release a wake lock:
PowerManager pm = (PowerManager)getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
mWakeLock = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK,"myLock");
mWakeLock.acquire();
//Do some important work in background.
mWakeLock.release();

Wakeup and non-wakeup sensors

Android categorizes sensors into two types: wakeup and non-wakeup sensors. If the
application processor has gone into suspended mode, then the wake up sensor will wake
up the application processor from its suspended mode to report the sensor events to the
application. The wakeup sensors ensure that their data is delivered independently of the
state of the AP and before the maximum reporting latency has elapsed. Non-wakeup
sensors do not wake up the AP out of its suspended mode to report data. If the AP is in
suspended mode, the sensor events for the non-wakeup sensors are still collected in their
hardware FIFO queue, but they are not delivered to the application. From the API level 21
(Lollipop) onward, Android platforms support the isWakeUpSensor() method to check
the type of sensor.

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The sensor's hardware FIFO queue

Non-wakeup sensors might have their own hardware FIFO queue. This FIFO (First In First
Out) queue is used to store the sensor events while the AP is in suspended mode. These
sensor events stored in the FIFO queue are delivered to the application when the AP wakes
up. If the FIFO queue is too small to store all the events generated, then the older events are
dropped to accommodate the newer ones. Some sensors might not have this FIFO queue at
all. We can easily check the existence and size of the FIFO queue by using the
maxFifoEventCount() method on the sensor object. If the value from this method comes
to zero, it means that the FIFO count for that sensor doesn't exit.
If your application is using non-wakeup sensors in the background and performing a
critical operation, and you don't want the AP to go into suspended mode, then you should
use wake lock. But make sure you release the wake lock after the critical operation is done.
Wake lock doesn't allow the application processor to go into suspended mode, but it also
increases the power consumption. So, we have to make sure we release the wake lock after
the critical operation is done; otherwise it will keep on draining the battery.

Summary
In this chapter, we looked at the two new proximity and light sensors and developed a
small app using them. We also learned how to turn on and turn off the flashlight using the
proximity sensor and adjust the screen brightness using the light sensor. We understood
how to wake up the application processor when it's in suspended mode using wake locks.
We looked at the wakeup and non-wake up sensors and their FIFO queues.
In the next chapter, we will learn about motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, linear
acceleration, gravity, and significant motion) and position sensors (magnetometer and
orientation). We will also explore the newly introduced fingerprint sensor.

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