It is a simple question. Is there any way to modify the pan sensitivity to move an XYChart? Move it faster or "accelerate" the movement to scroll through it rapidly.
Thank you
The pan works in a "natural" way. This means it moves as much as you drag on the screen. So, you cannot move it faster or slower.
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Is it possible to detect every pixel being touched? More specifically, when the user touches the screen, is it possible to track all the x-y coordinates of the cluster of points touched by the user? How can I tell the difference between when users are drawing with their thumb and when they are drawing with the tip of a finger? I would like to reflect the brush difference depending on how users touch the screen, and would also like to track x-y coordinates of all the pixels being touched over time. Thanks so much in advance for any help.
This would be very tricky primarily because every android phone is going to behave differently. There are some touch screen devices that are very, very sensitive and some that are basically "dull" by comparison.
It also sounds more like you are wanting to track pressure - how hard is the user pushing on the screen - which is actually supported on android devices.
I think some of your answer may be found by monitoring all of the touch events - in practice, most applications ignore a great number of events or perform some kind of "smoothing" of the events since there is literally a deluge of touch events when the user is manipulating the screen. Doing this may negatively impact your applications performance though.
I would recommend that you look into pressure sensitivity and calculate a circular region around the primary touch point based on pressure, then build your brush around that.
Another idea would be to incorporate more of a gesture approach to what you are trying to do - for example, visualize touching the screen with the tip of two fingers together (index and middle) and rolling the middle finger around the index finger or simply moving the middle finger up and down in relation to the index finger. Both fingers would be moved together for painting. This could be used to manipulate drawing angle on the fly or perhaps even toggle between a set of pre-selected brushes or could change brush size on the fly as you are painting.
Some of the above ideas I would love to see implemented - let me know when you have your app ready.
Good luck!
Rodney
If you have a listener on your image it will respond that there was a touch within that bounding box, basically.
So, to get what you want, you could, but, I would never do this, create a box around every pixel, or small group of pixels, and listen for a touch.
Wherever you get a touch, it may fire off an event, then you can react accordingly.
I can't think of any other solution that will give you each pixel that a person touched, at one time.
You may want to read up on multitouch though, as there are some suggestions in here that my help you:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/making-sense-of-multitouch.html
If you're looking for a way to get your content view as a View after Activity#setContentView(int), then you can set an id on the outer-most element of your layout:
android:id="#+id/entire_view" and reference it in your onCreate() method after setContentView:
View view = getViewById(R.id.entire_view);
view.setOnTouchListener( ... );
I would like to know on how to detect on which part of the screen did the user touch it, not necessarily specific, just the direction(NORTH,SOUTH,EAST,WEST) from the middle point of the screen. Would it also affect the orientation of the screen if ever? I am using a landscape orientation.
Fetch the coordinates of the touch (getX() & getY()) and compare it to the center point of your screen. This should give you a nice hint on the 'direction' of your touch.
Hope I understood the question.
JQCorreia
I'm in the process of developing an android game. I have an activity that has a custom class that extends the view and where everything is drawn. Everything works fine and I have implemented a way to draw levels and it looks good.
The problem that I have is that the levels are clearly too big for just 1 screen and re-designing them is not an option as it affects the user experience. The only solution that I see is making the screen scrollable so that you can move around the rendered stuff and zooming. What I'm looking for is double tapping anywhere to zoom in and out and scrolling to move around the map.
What I need help with is how to do this. I know how to detect that the user has scrolled or double tapped but I don't know what I should do to actually zoom in and out and scroll (if a scroll is detected).
I have been looking around and saw some very simple tutorials but all of them deal with zooming in/out of an image which is not what I need. My level is rendered using many different bitmaps so I know I need to redraw all of them when updating the screen (zoom or scroll).
Is my case the same as having a single image. When it comes to scrolling I think what need to be done is calculating how much the screen is "moved" then update the and redraw the view bitmaps with the new scaled coordinates, is this correct? What about zooming?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
Zooming should be easy once you have detected where you are currently at (zoom level i.e.)
image.setBounds((getWidth()/2)-zoomControler, (getHeight()/2)-zoomControler, (getWidth()/2)+zoomControler, (getHeight()/2)+zoomControler);
Something like that should help you zoom out/in on the image. When the zoom levels cross a certain level, you can consider swapping out an image that is more detailed that the one you are currently rendering.
First of all i should say my app is already has pinch zoom which works perfectly and it has pan feature too but this pan feature works with single touch and i want to make both work with multi touch. What i mean is if user make pinch gesture zoom work should be done and if user move both finger in same direction then pan work would be done. I have tried to use a threshold approach which measures the distance between fingers and compare the distance with previous distance and if the difference between distances is less than threshold it act as pan and if the difference is bigger than threshold then it acts as zoom. This approach kind of works but it is inconsistent. So i am here to ask for smarter and smoother way to make work this.
PS: My pinch zoom code is from here
The best approach that I can think of is by using the direction of movement. If the two fingers move in different directions, then activate only the zoom. But if they move in the same direction, pan and check for zoom based on the threshold. This should add some consistency.
I implemented a custom android SurfaceView class which draw (onDraw method) something often bigger than the available device width and height. When the user toutch the screen and move it's finger I need to implement a kind of picture movement with a speed and direction matching the speed and direction given by the user. That part I'm able to do it within onTouchEvent method. But here is my question: now I also want the speed to decelerate progressivly. I think this probably have to be coded with DecelerateInterpolator... Is there some samples or demos somewhere involving a SurfaceView, onTouchEvent and DecelerateInterpolator... ?
I was thinking of a too complicated way to address the problem. Finally found a way to solve my problem here: Smooth scrolling in Android The OnGestureListener simplify all gestures management.