I apologize if this is a stupid question. I have only taken an introductory Java class and am a beginner to Android.
I want to track the drawing made by a finger using Swype and record each stroke as an image or vector of some sort.
Is there a simple way to record a touch movement in another application, maybe by making an application running in the background?
Thank you and I appreciate any guidance!
Touch events are consumed by the top-most view. Because swype doesn't have any kind of API you can hook into you won't be able to get that information. Input Events | Android Developers
There might be some way to create a skeleton keyboard application that captures the gestures that people make over an image of the swype keyboard that then passes that gesture to the real swype, but I'd personally be worried about copyright unless it was just for personal use.
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I want to send keys to a flash game on android, as you know, when you touch screen, can control game but if you put some buttons over game, it doesnt work i mean, you cant control game. I think sendkeys doesnt work or I couldnt do that..
Is there any way to control game with external buttons on android?
You can simulate touch event in android. See this link. It has been well discussed in StackFlow community. And good luck with it!
SO i am building a game in which i want to be able to allow the user to do certain actions based on the gesture on the screen.
For example, the user makes a circle with their finger on the screen and then something will happen.
Or the user makes a triangle and then something happens..
Is there any way to detect this type of gestures?
This guy wrote an awesome post on the topic with source included:
http://www.androiddevblog.net/android/gesture-detection-in-android-part-2-of-2
I'm starting from scratch and I don't even know where to look.. or even what to call this.. so any help would be appreciated.
I am working with the Snake example that Google supplies and I want it to work on Android devices without physical keys. How would I be able to use touch gestures (up/left/right/down) to make the snake turn and whatnot.
Again, I don't even know where to start looking.. I'm still slowly learning my way through programming for Android.
Thanks!
You could implement View.OnTouchListener. I think this page is the one you're looking for.
I would modify it so that touching the top part of the screen sent the snake up, the left side sent it left, etc.
I am making an application in which user will be making gestures on screens and if the user has any contact number stored against that gesture , it will dial that number . now i am having an issue with recognition of gestures. the most primary issue i am facing is that if a user stores a number against a straight line , it will never be called because when ever user draw a straight line to call a contact it become translucent as it is not a valid gesture.
translucent image http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/images/gestures_003.png
Can any one help me with this so i can recognize this gesture as well or is there any way i can stop my user from making such gesture?
And also can any one tell me how to improve recognition of gestures?
Umm, why would you want to do this? You know very well that the straight line gesture is used to scroll down. This is probably by design.
I would like to know what is meant by gestures in typical mobiles more specifically android ones. Android supports gesture recognition.
Is a gesture termed as when user
holds the device and shakes it(say
upwards, downwards or side- side)?
Is a gesture termed as when a
finger is placed on the screen and
traced UP,DOWN,RIGHT,LEFT? If so
what is the difference between touch
screen and gestures.
I am confused between 1) and 2) option.
What is a gesture exactly?
As I understand it, a gesture is anytime a user touches the screen and does a pre-defined motion that the system understands. I would venture to say that shaking the phone is not a gesture, but a function of detecting changes in the accelerometers.
From Android's reference web page, a gesture is a hand-drawn shape on a touch screen. It can have one or multiple strokes. Each stroke is a sequence of timed points. A user-defined gesture can be recognized by a GestureLibrary.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/gesture/Gesture.html
I see gestures as being a type of input pattern that you expect from the user. I.e., you can setup mouse gestures in web browsers to do things like going "Forward" or "Back" in the browse by doing a specific "gesture" (maybe middle mouse button click and moving the mouse left goes "Back").
I'll give a brief answer to your bonus question: Yes, it's quite possible to to character recognition from input gestures on Android. In fact, at least one major vendor has already ported an existing handwriting engine to that platform. Works beautifully, but there's a lot of legal and marketing cruft to take care of as well before it ends up on real devices :(