Leveraging mobile features in Android

There are a lot of features that mobile devices have nowadays. In this recipe, we will learn how to take advantage of those features in our app. We will use the accelerometer in an Android app.

Getting ready

We will create an Android package in this recipe. Thus, you should read the recipe Packaging for Android in this chapter. We also will use similar code in this app to that in recipe Working with the accelerometer in Chapter 2, Input, Motion, and Touch. We need the KV file, e2.kv:

#e2.kv
<Acce>:
    Label:
        id: label1
        pos: 150, 300
        text: 'X: '

    Label:
        id: label2
        pos: 150, 250
        text: 'Y: '

    Label:
        id: label3
        pos: 150, 200
        text: 'Z: '

    Label:
        id: status
        pos: 150, 150
        text: ''

    Button:
        id: button1
        pos: 150, 50
        text: 'Start'
        on_press: root.pressed1()

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