On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, andre <andre.steingr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> the problem is that if a user accidentally has his/her hand on the bottom
> half of the screen (i know it sounds silly, but it is quite often the case
> with this application), it seems we can't receive any ACTION_DOWN of
> interest since since all action pointers are consumed with events caused in
> the  "ignore" area.


The answer depends on what you are doing:

(1) If this is all one View, use the multitouch data to track individual
pointers.
(2) If the can be holding down in some other view, Android 3.0 will split
touches across the views; prior to 3.0 doing this in your app would be very
non-trivial.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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