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Android

Learn to create a Magnetometer Metal Detector on Android

Manufacturers continuously add more features and sensors to smartphones. Thus, your smartphone has now a magnetic field sensor which can help you to use your smartphone as a Magnetometer Metal Detector. For example, we have published an application of this kind on the Google Play Store :  . Magnetometer Metal Detector lets you to measure magnetic field around you by using…
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Android

Get Android device rotation angles with accelerometer and geomagnetic sensors

In first versions of Android, rotation angles could be got by using a sensor with as type. But, since Android , this method is deprecated. However, a lot of applications and developers still use this way ! The following tutorial aims to show you how to get rotation angles (azimuth, pitch and roll) in the recommend way by using accelerometer…
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