For what it's worth, I just tried on my G1 (running Donut) and it is working
fine there as well.  Have you checked to see if Pointer Location on your
phone shows non-zero sizes?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, smallbug <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Dianne,
>
> Thanks for the info! I was trying to use "pressure" data to control
> the "zoom" of an view.
>
> I wonder if anyone else has any experience on G1. Regardless how hard
> I press the screen, I always get 0 for MotionEvent.getSize(). I always
> get larger values for my thumb than for my index and it seems
> MotionEvent.getPressure() always returns larger values for larger
> touch area/size, regardless how lightly/hard I press.
>
> Regards,
>
> On Sep 10, 3:56 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Capacitive touch screens detect size much more than pressure, so in
> general
> > you will find the pressure varies closely with size (this actually is
> often
> > true on resistive screens as well, but from my experience capacitive has
> > even less pressure sensitivity.)
> >
> > The screen definitely reports size -- if you run Pointer Location from
> Dev
> > Tools, you will see the actual touch data, and size has always been
> > reported.
> >
> > Fwiw, trying to do anything useful with this data is going to be
> > super-tricky, because screens from different vendors can behave very
> > differently and the data I have seen from all of our screens is super
> noisy
> > and easy to confusing by pressing on the screen in different ways.  I
> think
> > it is probably useful for things were these are treated as a very analog
> > signal providing direct feedback to the user (such as a drawing app where
> > the size/pressure modifies the pen strokes as you draw on the screen),
> and
> > not much else.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM, smallbug <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Debugging on my G1 phone, I am trying to use
> > > android.view.MotionEvent.getPressure() and MotionEvent.getSize().
> >
> > > For MotionEvent.getSize(), I always get 0 (the documentation says it
> > > returns a value ranging from 0 to 1;
> >
> > > For MotionEvent.getPressure(), it seems to me this actually reflects
> > > the real finger touch size, as opposed to "pressure"; for me, I get
> > > values range from 0 - 0.63.
> >
> > > Am I missing anything or is it a known bug of the SDK?
> >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > 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.
> >
>


-- 
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.

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