Real-Time Sensing on Android
Yin Yan, Shaun Cosgrove, Ethan Blantont, Steven Y. Ko, Lukasz Ziarek · 2014
Modern smartphones contain many hardware and software sensors, with numerous additional sensing capabilities scheduled to be added in future iterations of the hardware and Android framework layer. This comes at no surprise as sensing is a crucial aspect of most Android applications. Unfortunately, the Android framework provides few guarantees on the delivery of sensor data to applications that require it. Similarly, the Android specification does not provide much in terms of configuration, making its programming model difficult to utilize in more traditional real-time contexts.