expo_sensors 0.1.0

A Flutter plugin for the expo-sensors Universal Module.

expo_sensors

A Flutter plugin for the expo-sensors Universal Module. It requires expo-sensors to be installed and linked as well as expo-flutter-adapter to installed as a peer dependency in your Flutter project.

Getting Started

Installation

Add the plugin as a dependency in your Flutter project's pubspec.yaml file.

dependencies:
  expo_sensors: ^0.1.0

To install it directly from our git repo, specify the dependency as shown below:

dependencies:
  expo_sensors:
    git:
      url: git://github.com/expo/expo.git
      path: packages/expo-sensors-flutter-plugin

Usage

There are five different device sensors that you can access via this plugin. These sensors are: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Pedometer, and DeviceMotion.

Three-Axis Sensors

All three three-axis sensors provided in this plugin (Accelerometer, Gyroscope, and Magnetometer) contain the same set of methods and event shapes.

Each file contains an event type that has three members: x, y, and z which are all of type double.

The sensor class itself has an API similar to what follows:

static final Stream<GyroscopeEvent> events;

static Future<dynamic> setUpdateInterval(Duration interval);

You can import a sensor modules with the line below, replacing <sensor_name> with the actual sensor name of course.

import 'package:expo_sensors/<sensor_name>.dart';

Pedometer

PedometerEvent

PedometerEvent is a data class that has a single property, steps which is of type int.

Pedometer

static final Stream<PedometerEvent> events

Pedometer.events is a stream of step counting events that lets you know how many steps one has taken since you started listening to the stream.

static Future<int> getStepCount(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)

Pedometer.getStepCount should be pretty self-explanatory. startDate should be before endDate.

static Future<bool> getAvailability()

Pedometer.getAvailability will check (and ask if necessary) for permissions to access the device's pedometer.

DeviceMotion

DeviceMotionEvent

Instances of DeviceMotionEvent have the following members:

  final Map acceleration;
  final Map accelerationIncludingGravity;
  final Map rotation;
  final Map rotationRate;
  final int orientation;

DeviceMotion

The API for DeviceMotion is as follows:

static final Stream<DeviceMotionEvent> events

DeviceMotion.events is pretty self-explanatory.

static Future<dynamic> setUpdateInterval(Duration interval)

DeviceMotion.setUpdateInterval is pretty self-explanatory too.

static Future<double> getGravity()

DeviceMotion.getGravity returns the measured gravity variable from your device.