We have gotten a Xenarc 706TSA resistive touchscreen to work on beagle board with Android 1.5 (haven't tried later versions yet). Seems to work fine. Calibration was done manually by printing out coordinates read in the kernel driver and programming the compensation into the driver. Maybe not the "right" way, but it works. Mike
On Dec 2, 6:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > The Tattoo uses a resistive screen. Also, what is meant by "z"? Size > and/or pressure? If so, Android itself doesn't rely on this in any way, > though it is reported to apps. > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ashwin Bihari <abih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Android doesn't support resistive touchscreens and doesn't do any > > calibration. All of this work needs to be done at the Kernel level. > > > Regards > > -- Ashwin > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:18 PM, muni anda <muni.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Does the android support resistive touch screens? > > > > All the android devices seems to be capacitive ones and they differ > > > from resistive ones mainly in 2 aspects: > > > > - Unlike resistive screens, capacitive touch screens report Z and > > > android seems to use that heavily. > > > - Resistive screens need calibration. Does the android has support for > > > getting the calibration data and applying the transformation on all > > > the incoming coordinates? > > > > I am not clear where this will fall under? Kernel or Android framework? > > > > Thanks > > > - Muni > > > > -- > > > unsubscribe: > > > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > -- > > unsubscribe: > > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > 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. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
