Today, most modern Android devices are kitted out with a bunch of sensors. Learn how to build apps that retrieve information from the device's environmental, motion and position sensors, and then ...

The accelerometer and gravity sensor work hand-in-hand on your Android phone. The former tracks its motion and the effects of gravity, while the latter measures the direction and intensity of gravity.

Another motion-sensor-based attack was presented in October 2011 by a research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who used data from an iPhone 4’s accelerometer and gyroscope to ...

At its core, the Science Journal app is essentially a data logger that can record measurements taken by the device’s built-in microphone, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, or external sensors ...

A team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and IBM have designed a proof-of-concept Android Trojan app that can steal passwords and other sensitive information by using the ...

A new device fingerprinting technique can track Android and iOS devices across the Internet by using factory-set sensor calibration details that any app or website can obtain without special ...

According to the Geek newswire, the associate professor – Hao Chen – realised that most smartphones come with an accelerometer and gyroscope as standard. Chen's initial experiments, says the newswire, ...

A brand new technique, the sensor calibration attack is able to utilize calibration details from Android and iPhone gyroscope, magnetometer, and accelerometer sensors.

TapLogger Android app can read your password based on motion sensor data. A team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed an app that can tell where you tapped on your phone’s screen ...

What sets the Currency Converter and BatterySaverMobi apps apart from other malware-ridden Android apps is their use of the motion sensors to detect if they've been installed in a malware analysis ...