Galaxy s3 has Temperature sensor?

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user3409263 picture user3409263 · Apr 2, 2014 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I am creating a thermometer app in android when I test on Galaxy S3 it shows that 

TYPE_AMBIENT_TEMPERATURE NOT Available

TYPE_TEMPERATURE NOT Available

I want to know that Galaxy S3 has above sensors or not? or How I can solve this issue to get temperature ?

Answer

ugur picture ugur · Apr 4, 2016

As Yohannes said in the comment you can only calculate standard atmospheric temperature which is not useful to for daily use mostly used in aviation.

Here is the temperature estimation vs barometric height. http://home.anadolu.edu.tr/~mcavcar/common/ISAweb.pdf (page 2).

It seems only way to use an external temperature sensor with bluetooth or similar stuff and require this sensor in your app promotion.

This is really cool one: http://www.bee-wi.com/bbw200,us,4,BBW200-A1.cfm

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