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Iron Contributor

Mar 02, 2020

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Is the Hinge Angle Sensor API / Hinge Sensor still the way to go to listen on hinge angle changes?

Hi team, is the https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/dual-screen/android/api-reference/hinge-sensor?tabs=csharp still the way to go to listen on hinge angle changes? The blog post is a little bit ol...

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Craig_Dunn
Apr 14, 2020
tscholze you probably found this already, but for other techcommunity readers, you can read the Xamarin.Forms hinge sensor docs here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/dual-screen/dual-screen-info#poll-hinge-angle-on-android

guymerin

Microsoft

Mar 05, 2020

tscholze

For Andoird Native development (Java and Kotlin), the best method is what we describe in our documentation which is to have a listener on a new sensor we added (Hinge Angle Sensor)

tscholze

Iron Contributor

Mar 07, 2020

Thanks for pointing it out. I'm using Xamarin.Forms.

Craig_Dunn
Microsoft
Apr 14, 2020
tscholze you probably found this already, but for other techcommunity readers, you can read the Xamarin.Forms hinge sensor docs here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/dual-screen/dual-screen-info#poll-hinge-angle-on-android