Comments on: DroidDoes Have Pinch & Zoom

By: charlotte

charlotte — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:59:31 +0000

A free app called DOLPHIN BROWSER has the capability to do the “pinch&zoom” such as the iPhone. I highly recommend this app to Droid users.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:41:50 +0000

Yes, PicSay has Pinch Zoom, but it only works in that program. I think the original statement was that the Droid DOES NOT have multi touch, but I think it meant in other apps.

By the way I have a Droid and like it, but would love to be able to read some of those screens with small text.

Just my $0.02

By: Droid Doesn't

Droid Doesn't — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:38:04 +0000

Lame… I have a Droid and the test is impossible to read on many of messaging screens. No zoom! This phone is great if you can read it. People with poor eye sight have complained in the forums, and I’ve called Motorola… but there is no solution. They better hope that a lawyer representing visually impaired doesn’t get a wild hare regarding accessibility. Plain and simple… the Droid doesn’t provide any solution for changing text size or zooming in many critical apps. They should really make the multi-touch part of the next update.

By: DroidRocks

DroidRocks — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:35:14 +0000

I know that an update to the OS is coming in Q1 2010 that may or may no enable the multitouch in the default apps, however PicSay and the Dolphin browser that are both available in the marketplace have pinch and zoom functionality. I do agree that it should be available for all the apps lick Picasa and Google mail that are default installed.

By: dude

dude — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:06:55 +0000

Multitouch supported. Support in browser and more apparently to come

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:07 +0000

Thanks ! …. the Droid will decimate the iPhone its still in infancy but very soon

By: Colton

Colton — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:04:06 +0000

U.S. version does not have pinch zoom only the europearn version does

By: Andrew Zarian

Andrew Zarian — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:23:55 +0000

Im so glad I found this Video , I had no idea that the phone had support for multi touch . I also made a a video showing how it works ..

http://www.guysfromqueens.com/?p=765

By: michael

michael — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:03:48 +0000

I’m writing this on a moto droid. Installed picsay, no pinch zoom. The HTC droid which verizon launched the same day does have multi-touch. I think that’s how verizon gets away with listing it as a feature on droiddoes.com

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000

does it work when ur using the browser

By: Tai yur Shu

Tai yur Shu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:07 +0000

*rolls eyes* * Yawns* * picks nose*

By: Phoenixhawk

Phoenixhawk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:27:05 +0000

Ok,
I have to chime in here. The Android 2.0 release does support multi-touch. The API has the calls to be able to track 3 seperate points.

It is up to the individual developers to include support for the multi-touch. It appears that PicSay has added multi-touch support for their app and others will soon follow.

Here is the Link to the Android SDK new features of 2.0:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0-highlights.html

Notes about Virtual Keyboard:
“•The framework’s multi-touch support ensures that key presses aren’t missed while typing rapidly with two fingers.”

By: craven

craven — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:14:07 +0000

@roger
For the multi-touch functionality of the specific app to work, the phone must support multi-touch. Perhaps you meant the other applications on the phone don’t utilize multi-touch? There is a difference between the utilization of multi-touch and the existence of multi-touch. Multi-touch functionality exists on the droid, but it isn’t utilized in the form of pinch and zoom.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:17:55 +0000

sorry to all you guys getting hopes but motorola droid does NOT have multi-touch that specific app that he is using does but the phone in general does not, you can see this in the 2.0 description it does not support multi-touch therefore you cannot multi-touch on keyboard web or regular pictures just on some specific apps sorry but i hope this cleared things up for you

By: CK

CK — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:55:27 +0000

Jake I think multi-touch with the virtual keyboard is shown on this video,But I might be wrong. It shows it around 7:24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWJvkbFQW0