-Do you have a quote for this? (if yes, please send it to me in private). -Please don't discuss specific patents on this list (or any other official Android list). Thanks.
JBQ On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Anton Melser<[email protected]> wrote: > > I seem to remember Google announcing they wouldn't develop multi-touch > capabilities as Apple have patents on "the technology". Sure, it > existed many years before Apple "invented" it, but that has never > stopped large corps from threatening to sue for patents acquired > illegally. I'd forget about it. > Cheers > Anton > > 2009/7/14 MotoVB <[email protected]>: >> >> Dear all: >> We are developing the multitouch framework for android system. Our >> assumption is not to modify the android framework as far as possible. >> So we will modify the multitouch driver and provide a >> MultitouchAdapter.java to let the user program can listen some events, >> like Zoom and Rotate! And the user program also can receive the >> multitouch pointers to recogine the other gestures. >> >> The other work is to let the existing applicatons can support >> multitouch gesture, like zoom event, without compling again. The >> approach is to translate the Pointer Event to the Keyboard Event at >> the driver layer because the user level program can't inject the >> KeyEvent to other application due to security. For example, in the >> synaptics driver, when detecting the zoom gesture, it will send the >> KeyEvent to the keyboard device driver (/dev/input/event1). After the >> browser receive the Menu+I Key combination, it will zoom in. >> >> Could anybody give us some suggestion? If our work is complete, >> anyone needs it? >> We are afraid that the android team do the same thing now. Does >> anyone know whether the official android team add the multitouch >> support to android framework? >> >> > >> > > > > -- > echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc > This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ... > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
