I'm searching for a compass example for Android. All I need to do is to get the correct bearing (in portrait & landscape mode).
I already found several samples, some use only Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION
, some use a combination of Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER
& Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD
.
Which is the correct & common way to get the bearing for let's say Android 1.6 - 4.0?
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Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION
is deprecated.
The documentation says you should use SensorManager.getOrientation()
instead.
So you should read from Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER
as well as from Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD
, and then call SensorManager.getRotationMatrix()
and finally SensorManager.getOrientation()
which will return you the orientation of the phone.
From there if you see this diagram it is trivial to get the phone's orientation. This is probably what your second example does, but I don't know because you didn't show me what it is.
Thanks to Dan for his sample code.
But there is just a little correction : change event.values
to event.values.clone()
according to this discussion.
It works for me now after this modification.
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