I do wonder how accurate it could possibly be, however. Your standard compass can be led astray by a steel belt buckle, so it's hard to see how a compass inside a phone, with batteries, printed circuits, electrons whizzing around, etc, could be very accurate at all.
On Oct 31, 5:35 pm, Adrian Romanelli <adrian.romane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to answer my own question, Compass functionality is built into > some (all?) devices. I noticed that the up-coming T-Mobile Comet has > compass functionality. > > On Oct 31, 2:06 pm, Adrian Romanelli <adrian.romane...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Does an Android 'sensor' have a compass built in? I thought it was > > just a motion sensor, portrait/landscape, etc., and not a true > > compass? > > > And as far as I know, the gps device is a coordinate/point location > > thing, not a compass thing. > > > How would the phone/device actually know its facing North? > > > Finally, I'm not sure if this would help you out, but take a look at > > this article (its in three parts, link is part one), that describes a > > scrollable surface > > view:http://www.droidnova.com/create-a-scrollable-map-with-cells-part-i,65... > > > Not sure if it can help you or not, but maybe a place to start? > > > On Oct 31, 1:51 am, "josef.hardi" <josef.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I want to create a non-generic compass that uses rotating directions > > > instead of a rotating needle as in the conventional compass. The > > > drawing is like the illustration below. > > > > | > > > ' ' W ' ' ' ' ' N ' ' ' ' ' E ' ' ' ' ' S ' ' ' > > > > (shift a bit to the east) > > > > | > > > ' ' ' ' ' N ' ' ' ' ' E ' ' ' ' ' S ' ' ' ' ' W > > > > The needle (depict as "|") is fixed and the direction string should > > > have > > > some sort of "rotation" effect that immediately relocates each sign or > > > character from one tip of the edge to the opposite edge. Of course, > > > the movement follows the reading of the Android sensor. > > > > Does anyone has an idea how to implement this? I stumbled with how > > > I create the rotation effect and connect the string's movement with > > > the sensor reading. > > > > Thanks > > > /Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
