5 fun things you can do with sensors on your Android phone

Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority

An Android phone can replace several everyday gadgets — that’s nothing new. But what most people don’t realize is that it goes well beyond the obvious stuff like cameras, flashlights, radios, and calculators. The sensors packed into your phone can, with the right app, do things you’d never think to ask of it. We’re talking tape measures, metal detectors, sound meters, thermometers — things you’d otherwise have to dig out of a drawer.

Use your phone as a tape measure