-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?
>>
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
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> This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ...
>
> >
>



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