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Android SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST isn't fast enough

I'm using the sensors to balance a robot, but SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST only provides a 10Hz sampling rate, which is simply not fast enough. Is there a way of sampling even faster?

Is there a way of polling the sensors rather than waiting for a SensorEvent ?

Solution

  • Is there a way of sampling even faster?

    SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST is a 0ms delay. You cannot have negative time, at least as far as physicists have determined. Hence, there is no "faster" delay than SENSOR_DELAY_FASTEST.

    Use Traceview to determine where your time is being taken up. It is possible that it is your code that is slowing down your processing.

    a way of polling the sensors rather than waiting for a SensorEvent ?

    No, sorry.