Also you might want to note that actually Android 1.5 does support multiple (well 2) touch points (it's not documented though) Sadly as far as I can tell Android 1.6 is the only version (post 1.1) that multi-touch won't work on.
On Jul 22, 11:01 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Full multitouch is supported from when the APIs appeared -- API 5. > "multiple distinguishable touch points" is a hardware limitations (some > screen sensors don't support two completely separate touches at the same > time). You can determine this based on the feature defined in > PackageManager. > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Joseph Earl <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > API Level 4 and below support only a single touch pointer officially. > > API Level 5 - 7 support multiple indistinguishable touch points (for > > instance if you place one finger down, then a second one, then raise > > one of your fingers Android can detect a finger has been raised, but > > does not know which one) > > API Level 8 supports multiple distinguishable touch points (up to 256 > > I believe) > > > So yes from API level 5 onwards you can implement a Multi-Touch > > application on Android. > > > On Jul 21, 9:16 pm, gizmor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm new to Android, and I love it! > > > I was wondering how many touch are possible at the same time? > > > > The user click and drag (move) and while he's dragging he clicks again > > > (Other finger) and drag it too.. > > > > mmm, piano (multi touched) app... (with dragging)... is that possible? > > > > Thanks > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
