Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS Active Stylus/Pen Support

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew Hughes
I completely agree with your last statement. My intention is not to force someone to use a pen-enhanced UI just because they have a pen *capable* tablet. I would simply like to restrict my asking the user if they have an active pen they would like to use with the UI to those users who even have

[android-developers] Re: ICS Active Stylus/Pen Support

2011-11-11 Thread ashughes
First off, I would really like to reiterate how important it is that there be a way to determine if the current device supports an active pen digitizer. As I said before, using an active pen can streamline a user interface by allowing certain functionality to be moved to the pen. This allows a

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS Active Stylus/Pen Support

2011-11-11 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The events you get have enough information for you to know what type of device it came from. We will not be having some kind of global information about such devices, for the reasons I already discussed. If you did this with a uses-feature, you'd shoot yourself in the foot. Seriously. So some