Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-aware, and XR Applications Using Processing

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A. ColubriProcessing for Androidhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9585-4_5

5. Touchscreen Interaction

Andrés Colubri¹  

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University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

 

This chapter goes into the details of the touchscreen support in Processing for Android. We will learn how to capture single- and multi-touch events in our sketch; how to process these events to implement touch-based interactions such as selection, scrolling, swipe, and pinch; as well as how to use the virtual keyboard.

Touch Events in Android

With this chapter, we finally reached a topic that is very specific to mobile devices. Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, the touchscreen ...