SensorEventListener in separate thread

Question

This seems like a basic question, but after searching for a while and playing with it, I\'ve come to the point where some help would be appreciated. I would like to have a

Answer 1

You can receive sensor event in a background thread. Instead of

mSensorManager.registerListener(msl, mSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI );

you can declare it with a handler referring to a secondary thread. The run loop of a thread looks like this:

...
run {
    Looper.prepare;
    Handler handler = new Handler();
    ...
    mSensorManager.registerListener(msl, mSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI, handler );
    Looper.loop();
}
...