Compass Control Program for Android Open Source Project

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This software is developed by Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation ("AKM") to provide compatible daemon program, it is known as akmd2 in many production Android phones.

This software consists from two parts, one is Sensor Control Program (i.e. akmd2) and Sensor HAL (sensors.*.so). Sensor Control Program gets magnetic sensor data form the AKM's compass IC, then estimate offset and calculate azimuth, pitch and roll angle. This behavior is quite similar to the original one. We aimed to develop a compatible daemon software.

This software may help people who wants to study how to control AKM's magnetic sensor on Android.

The license for all code in this source code is specified in the NOTICE file. Please, refer to this file for further details.

To build this project, uncomment your desired device from the top of Android.mk file.

vi $(YOUR_ENV)/AK8975_FS/Android.mk

For example, if you wish to have a software for AK8975, please uncomment the following line.

export AKMD_DEVICE_TYPE=8975

Type 'mm -B', then you will get two binary files, akmdfs and sensors.default.so.