With the addition of active pen support in Android 4.0, is there a way to
detect if the current device *supports* a stylus (has an active pen
digitizer)? I noticed there is a touchscreen type resource qualifier called
stylus included since API level 1, but it's supposed to identify
resistive
Sorry, no there is not. Especially since a lot of these screens can be used
with both a finger or a stylus, this kind of fine-grained thing would
probably cause more trouble than it would help. This is already becoming an
issue with the existing resource qualifiers with the growing ability to
So there's no way to even programmatically check if a devices supports the
pen? Are there plans to add this capability? It would be really useful to
know this. Active pens allow for an alternative workflow (not just a more
precise, pressure sensitive input device) due to their ability to have side
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Andrew Hughes ashug...@gmail.com wrote:
It would also be helpful if active pen support could be listed as a
uses-feature in the Manifest to use Market filters to keep applications
that require active pen support from being installed on devices that don't
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