[OpenLayers-Users] Zoom out on Android

[Dominik Mikiewicz]

What I meant when mentioning galaxy s and Motorola xoom was that pinch zoom
is supported within a browser. I've heard upgrading galaxy s to 2.2 removes
this but I never bother about upgrading os on my phone.

In my case multitouch and pinch zoom in particular works with native
browsers on both mentioned devices. It also works with web view instantiated
by phonegap without any problems. On the other hand HTC Desire hd we also
use for testing does not offer multitouch for the native web browser and the
webview of phonegap.

So once again it depends on a combination of the os and the browser ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Allensworth [mailto:gregor at greeninfo.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 5:54 PM
To: Dominik Mikiewicz
Cc: 'Richard Greenwood'; peter at peterse-uithuizen.com; 'OpenLayers
mailinglijst'
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Zoom out on Android

On 10/21/2011 8:46 AM, Dominik Mikiewicz wrote:
> Android 2.1 on galaxy s does support pinch zoom. So does android 3.x 
> on xoom.
> Perhaps multi touch does depend on a combination of a browser and 
> android version.

Yes, it's definitely a combination of the device and OS. On many droids such
as my HTC Incredible running 2.1 and 2.2, the pinch is used by the OS to
magnify the screen. It's not a browser window resize nor a mouse event
passed into the browser; it's much like using the screen magnifier on other
OSs.

That's nice to know though, that some droids do support pinch. Hopefully
future ones will too, as I like the pinch effect a lot.

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