Accelerometer axes inverted in Motorola Xoom tablet

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#1

It seems that the default orientation for that tablet is portrait, so the axes are inverted compared to devices that report a default orientation as landscape (most phones).

Some details are in this link: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/tegra/docs/tegra_android_accelerometer_v5f.pdf

Does anybody have any recommendation on how to fix this?

Thanks!

#2

Found a solution: Here is the modified Cocos2dxAccelerometer.java file.

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package org.cocos2dx.lib;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.hardware.Sensor;
import android.hardware.SensorEvent;
import android.hardware.SensorEventListener;
import android.hardware.SensorManager;
import android.view.Display;
import android.view.Surface;
import android.view.WindowManager;

/**
 * 
 * This class is used for controlling the Accelerometer
 *
 */
public class Cocos2dxAccelerometer implements SensorEventListener {

    private static final String TAG = "Cocos2dxAccelerometer";
    private Context mContext;
    private SensorManager mSensorManager;
    private Sensor mAccelerometer;
    private int naturalOrientation;

    public Cocos2dxAccelerometer(Context context){
        mContext = context;

        //Get an instance of the SensorManager
        mSensorManager = (SensorManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
        mAccelerometer = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER);

        Display display = ((WindowManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
        naturalOrientation = display.getOrientation();
    }

    public void enable() {
        mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mAccelerometer, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_GAME);
    }

    public void disable () {
        mSensorManager.unregisterListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent event) {

        if (event.sensor.getType() != Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER){
            return;
        }

        float x = event.values[0];
        float y = event.values[1];
        float z = event.values[2];

        /*
         * Because the axes are not swapped when the device's screen orientation changes. 
         * So we should swap it here.
         */
        int orientation = mContext.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation;

        if ((orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) && (naturalOrientation != Surface.ROTATION_0)) {
            float tmp = x;
            x = -y;
            y = tmp;
        }

        onSensorChanged(x, y, z, event.timestamp);
        // Log.d(TAG, "x = " + event.values[0] + " y = " + event.values[1] + " z = " + event.values[2]);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {
    }

    private static native void onSensorChanged(float x, float y, float z, long timeStamp);
}
#3

same on galaxy tab 10.1 running 3.2. thanks for the code.

#4

#921 is created for it.
Thank you.