sensors_plus

A Flutter plugin to access the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors.

Platform Support

Usage

Add sensors_plus as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

This will expose such classes of sensor events through a set of streams:

• UserAccelerometerEvent describes the acceleration of the device, in m/s². If the device is still, or is moving along a straight line at constant speed, the reported acceleration is zero. If the device is moving e.g. towards north and its speed is increasing, the reported acceleration is towards north; if it is slowing down, the reported acceleration is towards south; if it is turning right, the reported acceleration is towards east. The data of this stream is obtained by filtering out the effect of gravity from AccelerometerEvent.
• AccelerometerEvent describes the acceleration of the device, in m/s², including the effects of gravity. Unlike UserAccelerometerEvent, this stream reports raw data from the accelerometer (physical sensor embedded in the mobile device) without any post-processing. The accelerometer is unable to distinguish between the effect of an accelerated movement of the device and the effect of the surrounding gravitational field. This means that, at the surface of Earth, even if the device is completely still, the reading of AccelerometerEvent is an acceleration of intensity 9.8 directed upwards (the opposite of the graviational acceleration). This can be used to infer information about the position of the device (horizontal/vertical/tilted). AccelerometerEvent reports zero acceleration if the device is free falling.
• GyroscopeEvent describes the rotation of the device.
• MagnetometerEvent describes the ambient magnetic field surrounding the device. A compass is an example usage of this data.

These events are exposed through a BroadcastStream: accelerometerEvents, userAccelerometerEvents, gyroscopeEvents, and magnetometerEvents, respectively.

Note

Some low end or old Android devices don't have all sensors available. Plugin won't crash the app, but it is highly recommended to add onError() to handle such cases gracefully.

Example

import 'package:sensors_plus/sensors_plus.dart';

accelerometerEvents.listen(
  (AccelerometerEvent event) {
    print(event);
  },
  onError: (error) {
    // Logic to handle error
    // Needed for Android in case sensor is not available
    },
  cancelOnError: true,
);
// [AccelerometerEvent (x: 0.0, y: 9.8, z: 0.0)]

userAccelerometerEvents.listen(
  (UserAccelerometerEvent event) {
    print(event);
  },
  onError: (error) {
    // Logic to handle error
    // Needed for Android in case sensor is not available
    },
  cancelOnError: true,
);
// [UserAccelerometerEvent (x: 0.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0)]

gyroscopeEvents.listen(
  (GyroscopeEvent event) {
    print(event);
  },
  onError: (error) {
    // Logic to handle error
    // Needed for Android in case sensor is not available
    },
  cancelOnError: true,
);
// [GyroscopeEvent (x: 0.0, y: 0.0, z: 0.0)]

magnetometerEvents.listen(
  (MagnetometerEvent event) {
    print(event);
  },
  onError: (error) {
    // Logic to handle error
    // Needed for Android in case sensor is not available
    },
  cancelOnError: true,
);
// [MagnetometerEvent (x: -23.6, y: 6.2, z: -34.9)]

Also see the example subdirectory for an example application that uses the sensor data.

Learn more

• API Documentation
• Plugin documentation website