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Android charts: achartengine or AndroidPlot?

I want to develop an activity to display sensor data in a plot. I've been looking around and I have found that the more interesting options for me are achartengine and AndroidPlot.

I need the following requirements:

  1. Line plot with 3 or more series
  2. Dynamic plots
  3. Integration with a layout with other GUI
  4. Integration with database

I think that both libraries are ok with my requirements, but could someone tell me from his experience which one is better? Which one is easier to integrate with an app?

Solution

  • I haven't look at AChartEngine but have used AndroidPlot and can relay my experience here.

    I've successfully had multiple lines on my chart being updated in realtime (Req 1&2) and this chart has been embedded inside of another control (Req 3).

    For Req 4, I haven't worked with a db but my guess is that you would have to write the code to do the query and update the chart yourself.