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★ Pinching and the Droid
Source: Daring Fireball (Articles)
Nov 03, 2009


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Joshua Topolsky, writing for Engadget, gives the Droid a very positive review overall. But regarding something I’d been wondering about, here’s what he writes about multi-touch:




As you have probably heard (or guessed), there’s no multitouch on
this device. That’s clearly an issue with Android 2.0 and choices
that Google is making about user interface — we’re fairly certain
there’s nothing technically holding back the DROID from utilizing
multitouch input, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see some tweaked
ROMs hit the information superhighway with the functionality
onboard. […]



Note: Android 2.0 does support multitouch events, but the
functionality isn’t implemented here.




I, alas, don’t have a Droid in hand, but my understanding of the multi-touch situation is as follows. First, “multi-touch” is too general a term. What Topolsky means in his italicized note is that the Android 2.0 OS does have APIs to track multiple simultaneous touch events. Game developers, for example, should be able to write “multi-touch” games equivalent to those on the iP

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