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<a href="#androidSensorsIntroduction">Introduction</a><br/> 
<a href="#androidSensorsInterface">Interface</a><br/></div></font></div> 
 
<a name="androidSensorsIntroduction"></a><h2>Introduction</h2> 
 
<p>Android defines a user space C abstraction interface for sensor hardware. The interface header is defined in 
<code>hardware/libhardware/include/hardware/sensors.h</code>.
In order to integrate sensors with Android you need to build a shared library that implements this interface. 

The types of sensors currently supported by Android include:
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<li>Accelerometer</li>
<li>Magnetic Field</li>
<li>Orientation</li>
<li>Gyroscope</li>
<li>Light</li>
<li>Pressure</li>
<li>Temperature</li>
<li>Proximity</li>
</ul>
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<a name="androidSensorBuildingDriver"></a><h2>Building a Sensor Library</h2>
<p> To implement a Sensors driver, create a shared library that implements the interface defined in <code>sensors.h</code>. You must name your shared library 
<code>libsensors.so</code> so that it will get loaded from <code>/system/lib</code> at runtime. 
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<a name="androidSensorsInterface"></a><h2>Interface</h2> 
 
 
 
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