Developers can make use of the accelerometer sensor and continual updates provided by it for many purposes, including motion-detection games and updating the position of an object on the screen.
We will use the device's accelerometer sensor on continual update to move an element around the screen as a response to device movement:
First, create a new PhoneGap project named
accelobjectby running the following command:phonegap create accelobject com.myapp.accelobject accelobjectAdd the device platform. You can choose to use Android, iOS, or both:
cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android
Add the device motion plugin by running the following command:
phonegap plugin add org.apache.cordova.device-motionOpen
www/index.htmland clean up unnecessary elements. Within thebodytag create twodivelements. Set the first with theidattribute equal todot. This will be the element that will move around the screen...