I wonder why you don't look into the documentation where everything is explained? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html#values
The first value means you point your phone 60° away from the north pole. PS: If you don't need compass orientation, it may be better/easier for you to only use the accelerometer for determining the "arrow that points to the floor". Peli www.openintents.org On Jul 17, 7:50 pm, f_heft <delphik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with working with the ORIENTATION values of the > SensorManager. > I would like to have some kind of 360°-value which directly shows me > if the phone is in normal portrait (0°), landscape, portrait turned > around (180°) or anything in between. > So I could have, for example, an arrow that points to the floor (like > gravity would do with a plummet) all the time, no matter how I tilt > (sidewards) the phone. > I thought this would be easy, but I'm pretty confused at the moment. > > First of all, the X value of the orientation-array seems to > correspondent with how I turn the phone, BUT: if it's completely > uprightly standing, this value is about 60° ... why not 0° (or 90°, > 180°, 270°), as I would expect? > > Second: The value resets if I turn the phone and Android automatically > changes screen orientation. So both in Portrait and in Landscape mode > it will be sth. like 60° when the phone is in a 0° angel in real > world. > I set "android:screenOrientation" to "landscape" but this doesn't help > anything :/ > > I want the app NOT to change orientation when I turn the phone, but I > want it to get a continuous orientation value when I tilt the phone. > > Any ideas how to achieve that? > > To complicate matters further, I have a Samsung Galaxy, so at the > moment I'm unable to use the phone for debugging (no adb connection) > because Samsung hasn't made a driver yet -.- > So it's hard for me to try out things and I hope anyone has a really > helpful answer .... > > Best regards, > Florian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
