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[Ryan Taylor]

I'm looking to get the users (person in the real world) height above ground.

Example: I'm on the ground therefore my height is 0. I walk up the stairs and my height steadily increases.

Is there an effective way of accomplishing this? I've read about using acceleration, but it's way too shakey and no where near accurate. In addition, it appears you cannot capture vertical non-angled acceleration

[Seobits]

You can use the pressure sensor, it's accurate most of the times but result may vary with weather changes and sometimes this might not be included in some low end devices.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager.html#getAltitude%28float,%20float%29

As an alternative you might want use the GPS to get the user altitude, if you are looking for changes in altude lower than 10m, this method might be inaccurate, specially for cheap devices.