In case you haven't found a solution yet, you can use hasSystemFeature method from the PackageManager, for instance: hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_TOUCHSCREEN_MULTITOUCH_DISTINCT)
More documentation can be found here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html On Dec 9, 10:39 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I am working on an app that will be processing touch inputs, > and was wondering if there is a way to programatically retrieve > information about the touch input device, specifically the number of > multi-touches it supports. Typically this will be about the touch > screen, but in theory, could be any device that sends inputs. > > I see in the now released 2.3, there are classes such as InputDevice > that seem to give a little more insight into the particular input > device, but nothing that I can see relating to multi-touch support: > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/InputDevice.html > > I am assuming that the simple answer would be no, there isn't a way, > other than listening to MotionEvent and determining while the user is > interacting with the app if there are multi-touch inputs streaming in, > but would be nice to know on launch as well. > > Thanks for any direction, > > Paul -- 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
