2009/9/10 dadical <[email protected]>: > > 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 - > > >
Thanks for that I think the problem was far simpler, I was coding late at night and I didn't set the class to implement SensorEventListener :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
