Though there are special styluses you can get that work with capacitive screens.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > Juan David Trujillo C. wrote: > > I have one final question though, does this mean painting on the > > device can't be emulated through software or by any other mean to > > allow other objects (pencil, thick pen, etc.) to draw on the surface > > of a touch screen? > > Only if, by software emulation, you can change the laws of physics. If > you figure out how to do that, Roland Emmerich would like to have a word > with you. > > Now, when you slide your finger on the screen, whether the software > draws a fat line or a thin line or a dashed line or a dotted line or > whatever is up to the software. So, the *results* on the screen may be > whatever you wish to draw with your finger, but the drawing still needs > to be done by a finger. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.8 > Available! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
