Essentials: Step Counter API

[nicolgit]

Description

Implements an API that allows to interact with integrated Step Counter when available in order to have:

• number of steps taken by the user since the last reboot while the sensor was activated

API

public class StepCounter
{
    bool IsMonitoring { get; private set; }
    void Start();
    void Stop();
    event StepCounterChangedEventHandler ReadingChanged;
}

Struct StepCounterChangedEventHandler

    public class StepCounterChangedEventHandler : EventArgs
    {
        DateTimeOffset Timestamp {get; private set}; // time of the most recent pedometer reading
        int TotalSteps {get; private set}; 
    }

Implementation

• Android: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_motion
• iOS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coremotion/cmpedometer
• UWP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.devices.sensors.pedometerreading

VS bug #735664

[jamesmontemagno]

Considerations here is that they would be only when the app is open and is not for background tracking. On Android that would require a service.

[SatyaRamprasad]

@jamesmontemagno Any updates on this feature request(background tracking)

[jrahma]

It will be great if you link it to the Location API in Xamarin Essentials to return the current location too

[Happypig375]

It would be great if Xamarin.Essentials has all sensors built-in, especially the pedometer.