I register a listener to orientation sensor from within a background
service with no trouble. Perhaps the following code may help. These
methods are called from my service's onCreate and onDestroy methods:
private void startMonitoring(){
SensorManager lMgr = (SensorManager) getSystemService
(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
try{
lMgr.unregisterListener(this);
} catch(Exception e){
Log.d(ScreeblService.class.getSimpleName(),
e.toString());
}
List<Sensor> lSensorList = lMgr.getSensorList
(Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION);
if(lSensorList == null || lSensorList.size() == 0){
throw new RuntimeException("Orientation sensor not
available!");
}
// assumes that this class implements
SensorEventListener
lMgr.registerListener( this, lSensorList.get(0),
SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL );
}
private void stopMonitoring(){
SensorManager lMgr = (SensorManager) getSystemService
(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
try{
lMgr.unregisterListener(this);
} catch(Exception e){
Log.d(ScreeblService.class.getSimpleName(),
e.toString());
}
}
On Sep 9, 1:41 pm, Mike Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> my service uses "getBaseContext()", seems to work just fine. Don't
> use it for
> GPS but we do use it for many other things.
>
> mike
>
> On Sep 9, 6:57 am, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > It seems trivial to use GPS in a background service, but how can you
> > do the same with the accelerometer?
>
> > Everything I've tried seems to require a context, but a background
> > service doesn't have a context?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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