Hi, has anything changed in the last few months? It seem to me, that the latest version of the web maps can be zoomed by multitouch (2.1 on Galaxy S). Is it handled by JavaScript multitouch events or some workaround?
Peter On Aug 27, 2:20 pm, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%2B > [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.
