Question

I know there is a way to check if a device is capable of multi-touch. However these seems to return true if a device is capable of 2 or more touches.

I need to know if the device is capable of 3 touches. Exactly 3 touches, or 3 or more touches, either check is acceptable. Anyhow know how to do this?

I am okay with either a boolean that says 3 or more are supported or simply return an number for the number of touches available.

thanks

Answer 1

There is no way to check for support for three touches.

You can use PackageManager and hasSystemFeature() to check for hardware features. However, the only hardware features related to multitouch are either two touches (android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch or android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.distinct) or five touches (android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch.jazzhand), not three, four, six, seven, eight, pi, e, or Avogadro’s number of touches.

That being said, I would expect that most devices supporting three touches would support five and qualify for jazzhand.