Accelerometer
Getting Started
Adding an Accelerometer to your app
To add an Accelerometer to your app:
Navigate to the Blocks tab of your project.
Under the App Features heading, locate Sensors.
Click the ⊕ symbol next to Sensor.
Select Accelerometer from the provided menu.
Click Add.
You will see a settings panel where you can set:
The Name of the Accelerometer
Whether the Accelerometer is Enabled
Whether the Sensitivity of the Accelerometer is low, medium or high
You can either confirm your choices and create the Accelerometer, or delete the Accelerometer.
Change Settings of Accelerometer
You will see the sensors you have added to your app underneath the Sensors section of your blocks.
If you click on the ⚙ icon next to your Accelerometer, you will be able to edit its settings as seen in the panels above. You can click on your Accelerometer's name to access its drawer of blocks.
Properties
Blocks
Events
Shaking
There may be some instances where you want to start an event by shaking your mobile device or when the mobile device is shook. There is a Shaking
event that you can add to your blocks that has sensitivity levels of high
, medium
and low
Changes
When the accelerometer sensor detects a change in the force acting on the phone the Changes
event will be fired. Each time the event fires the four associated parameters will be updated.
Functions
Get Acceleration on X, Y, Z axes
You can get the values for xAcceleration, yAcceleration and zAcceleration at any time with the following blocks.
Properties
Enabled
By default, the accelerometer sensor will be turned on, but you can use the Enabled
property to read its current state and to change its state, i.e turn the sensor on and off.
Sensitivity
You can use the Sensitivity blocks to set the sensitivity of the Accelerometer and get its current level of sensitivity.
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