On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:32:09 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, falcon74 <[email protected]<javascript:>> > 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 >
While I suspected that, but is there any official statement to that effect ? Maybe something from which we could make this inference / draw this conclusion -- without doubt ? > 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"? > I guess, GPS may be, an exception, but what you wrote, is probably true for all other sensors s.a. magentic-field-sensor, accelerometer/gyro etc. For GPS, there is at least one app available from appstore, which uses the "Mock Locations" method to inject true GPS coordinates into an application requiring fine-location, while getting the GPS coordinates from an external sensor via bluetooth. However the app needing fine-location might have to side-loaded, or, as I am beginning to suspect, not have <uses-feature> in it's manifest. > > 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
