''' Compass example =============== This example is a demonstration of Hardware class usage. But it has severals drawbacks, like using only the magnetic sensor, and extrapolating values to get the orientation. The compass is absolutely not accurate. The right way would be to get the accelerometer + magnetic, and computer everything according to the phone orientation. This is not the purpose of this example right now. You can compile it with:: ./build.py --package org.test.compass --name compass \ --private ~/code/kivy/examples/android/compass \ --window --version 1.0 debug installd ''' import kivy kivy.require('1.7.0') from jnius import autoclass from kivy.app import App from kivy.properties import NumericProperty from kivy.clock import Clock from kivy.vector import Vector from kivy.animation import Animation Hardware = autoclass('org.renpy.android.Hardware') class CompassApp(App): needle_angle = NumericProperty(0) def build(self): self._anim = None Hardware.magneticFieldSensorEnable(True) Clock.schedule_interval(self.update_compass, 1 / 10.) def update_compass(self, *args): # read the magnetic sensor from the Hardware class (x, y, z) = Hardware.magneticFieldSensorReading() # calculate the angle needle_angle = Vector(x, y).angle((0, 1)) + 90. # animate the needle if self._anim: self._anim.stop(self) self._anim = Animation(needle_angle=needle_angle, d=.2, t='out_quad') self._anim.start(self) def on_pause(self): # when you are going on pause, don't forget to stop the sensor Hardware.magneticFieldSensorEnable(False) return True def on_resume(self): # reactivate the sensor when you are back to the app Hardware.magneticFieldSensorEnable(True) if __name__ == '__main__': CompassApp().run()