Multi-Touch on the G1 (VIDEO)
| by Rob Jackson on January 12th, 2009 |
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We’ve heard that Android has Multi-Touch capabilities before but we’ve never seen it in action with such detail and such great explanation/description. The video uses a lot of developer lingo but illustrates beautifully how multi-touch could work on real applications like Google Maps scaling (4-minutes in):
This Multi-Touch “hack” does NOT require a recompilation of the kernel and only one Java system library needs to be modified. However, this multi-touch system does have some limitations due to the locking of the X and Y coordinates.
Luke Hutchinson created this little app hack and has open sourced the entire thing on this website. Hit the via link to visit his website which has a RIDICULOUS amount of detail on the matter. BIG PROPS LUKE!
[Via Luke Hutchinson]
1. Crater wrote on January 12, 2009
This is terrific. Maybe google, or a dev, will get this to work in things like google maps so that we can not have to use those plus and minus buttons.
2. MB wrote on January 12, 2009
why did Google have to comment it out?
3. Leslie Owusu-Appiah wrote on January 12, 2009
@MB: - I would guess that they commented it out due to the non-optimal performance Luke demonstrated (not because of threats from a fruit flavoured company like some have rumoured).
4. fluxa wrote on January 14, 2009
great work. thank you!
5. Jo wrote on January 18, 2009
comments out because th HW does not support it ‘period’. HTC’s fault. maybe to reduce the cost or their suply in taipei gave them the wrong stuff.
6. Android News Roundup | Android Phone Fans wrote on January 27, 2009
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