It uses the magnetic north. There are plans to have a way to compensate for the magnetic declination.
Mathias On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:56 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > SENSOR_ORIENTATION defines its azimuth rotation around the z-axis with > 0 degrees equal to North. The tilt compensated headings used by > orientation imply magnetic north. Does SENSOR_ORIENTATION use the > local magnetic north as its zero degree reference? Are there plans to > support True north in the SensorManager? > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
