multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's (trackpad or touchscreen) ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface (Wikipedia)
Questions tagged [multi-touch]
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android: how can I verify, that device support multitouch?
How can I verify, that device support multitouch event? If device have resistent display, multitouch is not possible. Is that way to find out, what kind of display is in device, or if device support multitouch?
Thanks.

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android multitouch image zooming?
I'm displaying an image on full screen now i want to zoom it in or out.
Any one guide on how I can implement multi touch image zooming?
I am using the 2.1 sdk version.

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Detecting pinch in Android
I would like to handle pinch events in my Android application to zoom in and out.
I believe Android 2.0 has multi-touch functionality, and heard that Android 1.6 might or might not support it depending of the device.
What's the best way to detect…

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MotionEvent.getPointerCount() is always 1
I'm somehow getting unexpected results while trying to implement multitouch in my app. I'm never getting data for more than one pointer.
Multitouch on my phone surely works, because I can pinch-zoom in browser and detect pinch gesture with…

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How many simultaneous multi-touch points are supported by the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus?
I have an app on the market and I want to update it for the new phones. The old iPhones only supported 5 simultaneous touches where as the iPad supported 10. I was wondering if the new phones now support 10 as well. I searched Google for…

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Undocumented .NET code related to Multi-Touch Manipulations throwing exception
A favorable outcome would be preventing this exception, preferably, or at least handling it gracefully.
I am getting an exception thrown within Microsoft code. On top of that, the method throwing the exception is…

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Add touch gestures to legacy swing application
I have a legacy swing application that I need to add touch gestures to,specifically pinch to zoom and touch and drag.
I tried the SwingNode of JDK 8 and I can run the swing application there, but the display performance was cut by more than 50%…

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Capturing all multitouch trackpad input in Cocoa
Using touchesBeganWithEvent, touchesEndedWithEvent, etc you can get the touch data from the multitouch trackpad, but is there a way to block that touch data from moving the mouse/activating the system-wide gestures (similar to what is done in the…

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Multitouch not working in cocos2D for iPhone
I am quite familiar with cocos2D (been working with it for over 1 year) and I encountered a problem with my multitouch game - the multitouch.
What I have:
[glView setMultipleTouchEnabled:YES] in my delegate.
A playscene that does NOT implement…

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How to disable multi-touch in mobile application using flutter
This question is purely based on GestureDetector flutter.
For Example: In Application, GestureDetector class is implemented so here by-default it support multi-touch, now need to disable this multi-touch so what could be the best way of a…

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multiple touches: touchend event fired only when a touchmove occurs
I would like to add some multitouch features to my javascript application when it is accessed from an ios device (and maybe android later).
I want to provide a shiftkey-like functionality: the user may hold a button on the screen with one finger,…

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Android : Multi touch and TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY
I am trying to get multiple touch events on a system overlay view, but am only receiving the MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE event.
Is there any possible way of getting multiple touch events on a system overlay?
Any examples or links would be very…

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Get MotionEvent.getRawX/getRawY of other pointers
Can I get the value of MotionEvent.getRawX()/getRawY() of other pointers ?
MotionEvent.getRawX() api reference
The api says that uses getRawX/getRawY to get original raw X/Y coordinate, but it only for 1 pointer(the last touched pointer), is it…

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Android testing, how to simulate multitouch (zoom in/out) using instruments?
I can simply simulate single touches - tap, swipe, hold etc in my tests, but completely stuck with simulating multi touch on HTС Desire with Android 2.2.
Could you please advise, how can I reproduce events chain to test multi-touches?
I think I need…

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Android Webview multitouch touchstart event not working with more than 2 fingers
Consider the following code:
canvas.addEventListener('touchstart', function(event) {
console.log('start');
});
When I tap with 2 fingers at the same time I have the following output (which is cool because is printed two…

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