Question

In a custom view how would it be possible to get how much of a finger touched the screen. In other words, to get if the user used the tip of his finger or a larger area. And then to be able to get each dimension of the rectangle.

Answer 1

event.getPointerCount() method call gives you number of touch

Sample Code

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(final MotionEvent event)
{
    System.out.println("Touch Count ="+event.getPointerCount());

    return true;
}