Resistive touchscreen also work on my platform with android-1.5 and android-1.6_r1. We did not use Z, which show pressure, but X/Y seems work well.
On Dec 3, 11:40 pm, ms12 <[email protected]> wrote: > We have gotten a Xenarc 706TSA resistive touchscreen to work on beagle > board with Android 1.5 (haven't tried later versions yet). Seems to > work fine. Calibration was done manually by printing out coordinates > read in the kernel driver and programming the compensation into the > driver. Maybe not the "right" way, but it works. > Mike > > On Dec 2, 6:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Tattoo uses a resistive screen. Also, what is meant by "z"? Size > > and/or pressure? If so, Android itself doesn't rely on this in any way, > > though it is reported to apps. > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Android doesn't support resistive touchscreens and doesn't do any > > > calibration. All of this work needs to be done at the Kernel level. > > > > Regards > > > -- Ashwin > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM, muni anda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Does the android support resistive touch screens? > > > > > All the android devices seems to be capacitive ones and they differ > > > > from resistive ones mainly in 2 aspects: > > > > > - Unlike resistive screens, capacitive touch screens report Z and > > > > android seems to use that heavily. > > > > - Resistive screens need calibration. Does the android has support for > > > > getting the calibration data and applying the transformation on all > > > > the incoming coordinates? > > > > > I am not clear where this will fall under? Kernel or Android framework? > > > > > Thanks > > > > - Muni > > > > > -- > > > > unsubscribe: > > > > [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> > > > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > > -- > > > unsubscribe: > > > [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> > > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > -- > > 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. > > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
