Detect device moving detail

Question

I am doing a demo in which when I move device like on top-left, top-right,top-center and bottom-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, center-right, center-left this type of movement I need to detect so that I am looking for accelerometer and gyroscope sensor. Am I going on the right track or not?

Do you have any demo or any link?

Answer 1

Yes accelerometer would be a good option to detect the motion of the phone

You need to override the onSensorChange even in your activity in order to detect accelerometer values.

public void onSensorChange(SensorEvent sensorEvent) {
  Sensor mySensor = sensorEvent.sensor;

  if (mySensor.getType() == Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER) {
      float x = sensorEvent.values[0];
      float y = sensorEvent.values[1];
      float z = sensorEvent.values[2];
  }
}

Get started from here

Sensors Overview

Using the Accelerometer on Android

SensorManager

Also check out this page for a collection of android sensors library.