jlark / WPShake

Windows Phone Shake Listener

WPShake

I was suprised that a built in shake event handler didn't exist. We can see through MSDN that they put it for Windows8 but this feature doesn't work for windows phone.

Windows Phone Shake Listener: Simple to use shake listener simply bind to an existing accelerometer event listener.

//initialize listener private ShakeListener mShakeListener = new ShakeListener();

//bind it to ReadingChanged

        var accelerometer = Accelerometer.GetDefault();
        if (accelerometer != null)
        {

            accelerometer.ReadingChanged += Shaken; 
        }

// check that it it's good to go.

        private void Shaken(Accelerometer sender, AccelerometerReadingChangedEventArgs args)
        {
        	 AccelerometerReading red =  sender.GetCurrentReading();

             double x = red.AccelerationX;
             double y = red.AccelerationY;
             double z = red.AccelerationZ;
             Debug.WriteLine("shaken x : " + x);
             if (this.mShakeListener.Shaken(x, y, z))
             {
                 Debug.WriteLine("we have shaken");
             }