Multi-Touch on the G1 (VIDEO)
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]