Is it possible to detect motion when screen is off?

Question

My app simply need to detect any motion of the device while screen is off.

I know that accelerometer is used for this task but it don\'t work while screen is off in

Answer 1

After a quick research I found that most of android devices does not send the accelarometer events when the screen is off. To know more about this bug please take a look on here. Also here too.