Mobile device support for sensors in peripherals

A method comprising:

• in response to a peripheral device being attached to a mobile computing device, using a driver to determine that the peripheral device includes a sensor, wherein the driver is preloaded in an operating system kernel of the mobile computing device;
• updating a list of supported hardware features to include a peripheral hardware feature based on hardware features provided by the sensor of the peripheral device attached to the mobile computing device;
• providing the list of supported hardware features to an application store server;
• and
• receiving a list of available applications that are compatible with the list of supported hardware features from the application store server.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

• in response to a peripheral device being attached to a mobile computing device, use a driver to determine that the peripheral device includes a sensor, wherein the driver is preloaded in an operating system kernel of the mobile computing device;
• update a list of supported hardware features to include a peripheral hardware feature based on hardware features provided by the sensor of the peripheral device being attached to the mobile computing device;
• obtain a list of available applications that are compatible with the list of supported hardware features from an application store server;
• and
• enable an installed application that is compatible with the peripheral hardware feature.