[Mobile] How to check if user moved left or right?

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I’m trying to figure out if there is anyway to tell if the mobile moved to the left or to the right (imagine taking a step left or right).

I imagine this can be split into 2 questions:

  1. Did the phone move “enough”? Should be doable using the accelerometer
  2. Did it move left or right? I guess there are multiple ways of doing this, I was thinking a combination of compass and some initial calibration (ask the user to take a step left or right for calibration).

Is there already something like this out of the box provided by anyone? Tried google but didn’t find anything alike.
If not, am I thinking the workflow correctly, or is there a better way to do it? (I don’t really have Android / phones experience)