[Enhancement] LinearAccelerationSensor on Android

[BurkusCat]

Summary

The current Xamarin.Essentials Accelerometer provides generic access to an accelerometer sensor across the platforms. It would be good to allow a way to change the requested sensor to be the LinearAccelerationSensor on Android only. The LinearAccelerationSensor excludes gravity from the readings which is very handy.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_motion#sensors-motion-linear https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blob/main/src/Essentials/src/Accelerometer/Accelerometer.android.cs

API Changes

Add an optional method parameter for the type of sensor you want to request. It falls back to Accelerometer on any platforms where other platforms are not supported.

public static void Start(SensorSpeed sensorSpeed, AccelerometerType? accelerometerType);

public enum AccelerometerType
{
    Accelerometer = 0,
    AccelerometerUncalibrated = 1, // why not? :)
    LinearAcceleration = 2,
    Gravity = 3, // why not? :)
}

Accelerometer.Start(SensorSpeed.UI, AccelerometerType.LinearAcceleration);

Intended Use Case

Linear acceleration data is very useful. There are lots of times when you want to exclude gravity from any measurements.

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[Gio-Arch]

can I please have an update on this issue? I'd like to use linear accelerator on Maui Thanks