On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, falcon74 <[email protected]> wrote: > Wondering if anyone has come across an official (or unofficial) > statement/stand regarding Android (SDK) and Google-Play, regarding apps > using external sensors, e.g. bluetooth or USB based ones.
AFAIK, Android does not support external sensors. While it may be possible at the ADK level to cook up your own support for them, you cannot deliver the results through the standard SDK mechanisms, so no apps using such sensors would be able to use that data. Hence, the Play Store filtering is based on what SDK apps would be expecting -- it is less of an issue of "does the device have a magnetic field sensor" and one of "does the device have a magnetic field sensor that works with SensorManager"? Now, if in some future era, Android supports external sensors, Play Store filtering will hopefully change to match. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 4.1 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
