Oh dear, I'm really sorry .. I feel dumb and I don't know why I didn't find that stuff on my own. Usually I read the docs pretty well, but I guess the hot weather was no good for me. Thanks for your help, the Accelerometer is pretty perfect for me and I got all I wanted with it :-)
On 17 Jul., 20:47, Peli <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder why you don't look into the documentation where everything is > explained?http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.h... > > 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". > > Peliwww.openintents.org > > On Jul 17, 7:50 pm, f_heft <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
