Detecting whether user is standing or sitting

Question

I want to predict a standing to sitting transition and vice versa of a user in Android. But I guess, currently Google's DetectedActivity Api gives everything but sitting-standing transition. What are the other ways of doing this? Also, I have tried gathering the accelerometer values, but don't know how to get a pattern from the values and then later predict transitions using that pattern. So how should I proceed?

Answer 1

According to the documentation:

public static final int TILTING

The device angle relative to gravity changed significantly. This often occurs when a device is picked up from a desk or a user who is sitting stands up.

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