Android sensors, an overview. As I am sure you are aware, the modern Android device comes packed with a ton of internal sensors to enhance and improve your experience, or otherwise just to operate.

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 ...

This is a sample application that uses the Android rotation sensor and displays the device rotation (pitch/roll) with a custom view (an attitude indicator, aka "artificial horizon"). It shows proper ...

The just-released Android 2.3 Gingerbread update wasn’t the big update many people were hoping for. Underneath the hood, though, the big news is support for new sensors that may give future ...

This repository provides a simple Android Sensors HAL for integrating InvenSense chips inside Android system. It doesn't provides any calibration or fusion algorithms inside. Beware that this ...

A new app allows users to view electrocardiograms on their smartphones. Gone are the days when we simply used our mobile phones for calling people – now we can conduct our own ECGs.

But today, Android updates are sucking for a completely different reason. Users on Google's product forums are complaining that the latest version of Android Nougat, v7.1.2, is bricking the ...

A research paper has uncovered a sensor calibration attack that is capable of pulling device data and can track Android and iPhone handsets across the internet almost instantly — without any ...