We have spoken to the Android team. Unfortunately, we cannot say when the Android browser will expose multi touch events to JS. Stay tuned.
On 28 Aug 2010 04:46, "Nianwei Liu" <[email protected]> wrote: > It (Android 2.2 on Nexus One) does sent the following touch events: > touchstart, touchmove, touchend, but no any gestureevents, which is > needed to decide a pinch. And those events are for one finger only. > > Because the maps team said they are going to follow up with Android > team, I am trying to get an update. > > On Aug 27, 8:20 am, Chad Killingsworth > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Android browser still (as of 2.2) doesn't send the touch events to >> the page - it handles them natively by zooming the page. Not a lot to >> do until that is corrected. >> >> Chad Killingsworth >> >> On Aug 25, 11:34 am, Nianwei Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > The issue has been brought up 5 months ago: http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2252 >> >> > and I am quite surprised only 3 people stared it. >> >> > Google team indicated that they will follow up with Android team but >> > so far it seems no real progress. Android browser does release the >> > multitouch support, but still no guesture events, so still no pinch >> > zoom. >> >> > When I hand an android phone to someone (iphone owner) to show a map, >> > they will try pinch zoom and get disappointed, especially considering >> > this is a Google API on a Google phone. >> >> > Thoughts from the groups? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]<google-maps-js-api-v3%[email protected]> . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
