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[pedometer 4.0.1] Support Recording API on Android

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, dart, flutter
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Android Recording API documentation and the pedometer plugin's existing Android integration. Determine how the plugin currently uses SensorManager and what API requirements apply. Done means the plugin supports step recording through the Recording API while preserving differentiation by days, hours, and minutes.

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Description

improvement

In Android, it is possible to count steps without a background service and still be able to differentiate between days/hours/minutes. This is much more energy-efficient than using the SensorManager directly. It would therefore make sense to support the Recording API in this plugin.

https://developer.android.com/health-and-fitness/guides/recording-api

A big problem with this plugin is that you always have to count the steps yourself with Foreground services or in the background. You don't have this problem if you use the Recording API.

Dominant language
Dart
Stars
610
Forks
733
Avg merge
33m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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