Unless an SDK is released with multi-touch support, this discussion is probably better off in android-discuss or android-platform.
(Just trying to cut down on cross-posting) On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM, luke <luke.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My personal take is that there is a whole lot of prior art (the iPhone > was not the first by a long shot), so it's probably not super- > defensible in court... but Apple has deep pockets and an elite image > to maintain. They apparently have about 200 patents on the iPhone, > two of which especially deal with their touchscreen technology -- but > I haven't looked into the details. > > On Jan 11, 11:32 am, Sena Gbeckor-Kove <s...@imkon.com> wrote: >> Great! Does anybody know if this is ok IP wise, or is a lawsuit likely? >> >> S >> >> On 11 Jan 2009, at 13:30, luke wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have multitouch working on the G1 in a way that is backwards- >> > compatible with single-touch applications. I capture the multitouch >> > events and then hijack an unused field in MotionEvent to pass the >> > multitouch events in a way that only affects programs that have been >> > designed to work in multitouch mode -- i.e. this did not require re- >> > plumbing the event system. The approach also does not require any >> > kernel modifications, it just needs modifications to one Java system >> > class. >> >> > Video and full source here: >> >http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/android-stuff/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
