Today, most modern Android devices are kitted out with a bunch of sensors. Learn how to build apps that retrieve information from the device's environmental, motion and position sensors, and then ...

Seeing the "Don't cover the earphone area" warning on Android too often? Here’s how to fix it and prevent it from interrupting your phone use.

The proximity sensor of an Android device is capable of turning off the Ambient Display as of Android O, one user running the latest developer preview of the operating system has uncovered.

The ambient light sensor tracks how bright your surroundings are, the proximity sensor knows when you're on the phone, and the GPS captures your location using satellites.

Android O takes that a step further and will actually turn the display off again if the sensor is covered. Again, imagine putting the phone back in your pocket after checking ambient display.

The proximity sensor is small in size, but its value is great for devices. But with the correctness of its work in smartphones, Xiaomi did not work out. And this problem accompanies the company ...

Most high-end and recent Android phones already have built-in proximity sensors, so you should be able to set up SpeakerProximity and use it on such devices.

Sensor manufacturer Ams launched this week a new in-display ambient light and proximity sensor solution for smartphones equipped with OLED displays which essentially makes those modules invisible ...

So what does Android's Nearby Connections 2.0 bring? First is that proximity-based data passing functions completely offline.

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