How can you make your app stand out? Want users coming back for more? Make your application come to life with haptic feedback! Haptic (or touch) feedback create interactive and engaging user experiences, which translates to more enthusiastic users investing more time in your app...In this session, we will take you step-by-step through the Immersion MOTIV SDK, teaching you how to quickly and easily incorporate pre-designed haptic effects to your apps.

1. Adding MOTIV UHL haptic effects
to your Android application
Bob Heubel & Richard Mar presenting
September 2011
NASDAQ: IMMR
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2. Agenda – We will answer these questions:
 Who is Immersion?
 What is haptics?
 How can Haptics be applied to Android apps?
 What is Immersion‟s MOTIV Platform for Android?
 How do you code the MOTIV Universal Haptic Layer
(UHL) into your apps?
 Where do you find additional MOTIV resources?
 What is the meaning of life? (time permitting)
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3. Before we start, you should...
 As an experienced Android developer, you should
have these tools installed on your machine:
 Java SE
 Eclipse
 Android SDK
 Android Developer Tools
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4. Additionally, you will need…
 Download latest Immersion UHL to your PC
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVsdk
 Install “UHL Effect Preview” application from the
Android Market
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5. Who is Immersion?
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6. Company Highlights
Immersion: The Haptics Company
NASDAQ: IMMR
Technology Leader
Developing haptics solutions
Established in Large and since 1993
Rapidly Growing Markets
– Our tech is in 750+ million devices
– Mobile phones, game controllers, auto, World Class Customer Base
industrial, casino, other portable devices
Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony, Microsoft,
Logitech, Lexus, BMW, CAE…
Worldwide Support
– Offices in
EU, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, US &
Strong Intellectual Property
Canada Portfolio of 1,200+ granted and pending
patents in the field of Haptics related
to both hardware and software
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7. What is haptics?
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8. The Science of Haptics
Haptics is the science concerned with how people explore their
environment through their sense of touch (tactile feedback)
Feeling a
Feeling a Vs. Haptic
real bump simulation of
on a a bump on a
surface surface
Haptic interfaces simulate real-world forces
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9. The Science of Haptics
 Role of touch is often underestimated. We rely
extensively on touch to perform many tasks, like:
– Controlling the movement of objects including our own bodies
– Perceiving the world around us through the objects we interact
with
 Haptic interactions rely on mechanical signals like:
– Applied forces
– Applied torques
– Movement of objects
– Geometry and mass of objects
– Stiffness and texture of materials
 Haptic interfaces use actuators (motors) to create haptic
sensations that simulate real-world interactions
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10. Common Haptic Device Examples
Force-feedback and rumble feedback gaming
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11. The Benefits of Haptics
 Provides an enhanced user-experience that is more
engaging, intuitive and personal
 On touchscreen devices, Haptics assists in hand-eye
coordination--confirming task or data input completion
or acceptance by the UI elements
 More fun for gaming and entertainment apps
 Opens up a new communication channel that can be
used with or without audio or visual cues...
– Example, using vibe patterns to identify callers without
use of sound.
– Example, using vibe patterns to as navi-cues to
navigate while walking through the city, without the
need for looking at your handset GPS map.
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12. More Examples of Applied Haptics
Virtual keypads & “Enzo’s Pinball” by “Solo” by Coding
keyboards that feel Haptify let’s you feel Caveman lets you feel
like mechanical the pinball each string of the guitar
buttons collisions, bumpers & as you strum
flippers
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13. Immersion‟s Haptic Technologies
for the Android Platform
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14. Immersion‟s Haptic Technologies
 Developer tools and resources (MOTIV SDK)
 Universal Haptic Layer (UHL) that contains a
library of 124 pre-made effects for developers
 Software emulator included with MOTIV SDK that
allows consistent playback in haptic experience
across all Android devices
 Embedded software player technology
(TouchSense) for OEMs to use that allows the
highest quality Haptic playback possible
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15. What does the MOTIV SDK do for you?
 Saves you time developing effects that feel good
across all Android devices and platforms, not just a
single device or platform version (1.6 or higher)
 Allows you to have more than simple motor on/off
vibration control, like ramps, staccato repeats and
complicated patterns
 Consistent vibe effects across ALL Android devices.
 Devices with TouchSense embedded player technology
will feel the best (1/4 billion devices to date) but the
MOTIV emulator creates compatibility support on all
other Android devices. Code once!
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16. Example – Benefits of MOTIV SDK
 Using standard Google vibrate () you must define
motor “on” durations for each device type
– Not useful, not effective for gaming
– Very time consuming to code
– Your effect may feel fine on one Android device but horrible
on another, due to differences in vibe motors
 Using MOTIV, we abstract this level for you
– You choose an effect you want from a library
– It will automatically feel consistent across all devices
whether it is an explosion, click, or bounce
– We call this our Universal Haptic Layer (UHL)
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17. Immersion MOTIV Platform
Universal Haptic Layer
(UHL)
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18. Adding UHL Haptics to an Android Application

19. Universal Haptic Layer
Available for download on www.immersion.com/MOTIVsdk
Verbose documentation at http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVuhl
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20. Free Effect Preview App
 Available from the Android
Market now
 Allows you to feel the library
on any Android device
 Provides code sample for
each vibe launcher effect
 Awesome on Android handsets
with embedded TouchSense
player installed by the OEMs
 Good on all other Android
handsets and tablets allowing
vibe control not available with
standard Google vibe ()
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21. UHL Library of Effects in Preview App
The UHL library contains 124 pre-designed effects.
For design purposes, these effects are grouped
into categories:
 Selection confirmation effects
 Scroll effects
 Alert/Alarm effects
 Animation Transition effects
 Game effects
 Texture effects
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22. UHL Effect Preview App on Android Market
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23. Code Demo:
Integrating UHL Haptics into an
Android sample application
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24. You should...
 As an experienced Android developer, you should
have practical experience with Eclipse and:
 Android architecture
 The life cycle of components
 Event handling
 Debugging and application
 Deploying an application to a device
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25. Download Resources
 Download latest Immersion UHL to your PC
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVsdk
 Install latest “UHL Effect Preview” application from Android Market
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26. Add UHL to Eclipse project
• Extract UHL_x_x_xx.zip somewhere
• Copy extracted libImmEmulatorJ.so file to your Eclipse
project libs/armeabi folder (create folders if necessary)
• In Eclipse, refresh project to see
libs/armeabi/libImmEmulatorJ.so
• Navigate to Project > Properties > Build Path >
Configure Build Path…
• Click on Add External JARs…
• Browse to location of extracted UHL.jar file
For additional information, visit the Immersion website:
http://www2.immersion.com/developers/index.php?option=com_
content&view=article&id=495&Itemid=812
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27. Add Import Statement
 Import the Launcher class wherever the Launcher will be used
import com.immersion.uhl.Launcher;
Add Launcher Member
• Add a Launcher member to the main Activity class or other
application-wide class
private Launcher m_launcher;
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28. Instantiate Launcher
 Instantiate the Launcher object once, usually in the main Activity
onCreate function
try
{
m_launcher = new Launcher(this);
}
catch (RuntimeException e)
{
Log.e(“My App”, e.getMessage());
}
Use MOTIV UHL Effect Preview App
Use the Effect Preview application from the Android Market to feel the
built-in effects and determine which effect IDs to use in your application.
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29. Play Effect
 Play a haptic effect
try
{
m_launcher.play(Launcher.BOUNCE_100);
}
catch (RuntimeException e) {}
Use Effect Preview Application on your target Android phone
to choose effect.

30. Stop Effect
• Stop the haptic effect.
try
{
m_launcher.stop();
}
catch (RuntimeException e) {}
Add this to Activity onPause function in case a
phone call is received.
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31. In a nutshell, that‟s it!
If you can handle the setting up your Eclipse
environment and understand the last five slides…
Then you should be able to add cool UHL effects to
your applications.
But let‟s review the steps within the Eclipse environment
itself through the creation of a simple rolling ball demo
application just to make sure you understand.
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32. Rolling Ball
Demo App Example
(within Eclipse)
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33. We talked about...
 Who is Immersion?
 What is haptics?
 How can Haptics be applied to Android apps?
 What is Immersion‟s MOTIV Platform for Android?
 How do you code the MOTIV Universal Haptic Layer
(UHL) into your apps?
 Where do you find additional MOTIV resources?
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34. Additional Resources
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVsdk
Developer guide
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVguide
Reference doc
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVref
Sample code
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVcode
Forum
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVforum
MOTIV Studio (Only for advanced custom effect design)
http://www.immersion.com/MOTIVsdk

35. Immersion‟s Got Apps Campaign
 Immersion Building a Wall of Haptic Apps for Mobile World
Congress (MWC „12) in Barcelona, Spain.
– Show us your apps using the Immersion MOTIV UHL SDK and
add “Integrated with Immersion MOTIV Haptic Effects” to
your description page
– Launch in Android Market or any other Android app store
– If your app is compelling, we‟ll help you promote it and demo
it at Mobile World Congress – Feb 2012 and other tradeshows
– AND drive connection to our OEM / Carrier partners
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36. Immersion to Promo Your Cool Haptic Apps
 Inclusion in Immersion‟s outreach to over 30 major
technology & review channels including:
– Engadget, PC World, AndroidPolice, Appolicious, VentureBeat/GameBeat,
Android Central, etc…
 Highlight of your app in Immersion‟s Feature App section
of their Developer‟s site (developer.immersion.com)
 Inclusion in Immersion‟s publicly issued press releases
 Potential inclusion on Immersion promotional
videos/animations
 Demos to Immersion‟s major OEM partners for bundling
opportunties
 Inclusion in Immersion demonstrations at upcoming
tradeshows and conferences like AnDevCon, MWC, etc.
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37. Thank you!
Bob Heubel & Richard Mar presenting
September 2011
NASDAQ: IMMR
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