What is Reddit's opinion of Force Touch Demo?

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The Android operating system has had code for "3D touch" (force touch) since 2009, with the use of capacitive touch screens making measuring touch sensitivity possible (see the difference between capacitive vs resistive touch screens here). App developers have never implemented it, because it wasn't a wanted feature. Now that Apple has "innovated" it, maybe it'll become a wanted feature, and app developers will implement it? I don't know. Personally, I would rather long press than force touch.

You can play with force touch on your screen using this app, it shows the value returned from the OS of how hard you're pressing on the screen.

> Force touch? Samsung is scrambling to get their own into the next Galaxy

Android has "force touch", and has been incorporated into some models for years now. If you want to check if your android phone is compliant, you can even download an app to tell you.

> Huge hype with Gold phones? iphone sells a bunch, Samsung makes their gold phone an advertising centre point.

They've made "rose gold" phones since the Note 4, AFAIK.

> Glass front back and alloy? Well they got around to copying the iPhone.

Just like Apple stole the metal design from HTC? Seems legit.

> Look at their new smart watch, those little icons look quite familiar...

You're right. It looks just like Tizen!

Stop the Apple/Samsung circlejerk. Both manufactures copy each other, and everyone else. Nobody cares which side you pick, but to say that Samsung is blatantly copying apple is absurd. Get over it and move on.

Android has had 3D Touch (aka pressure sensitive touch events) since API level 5 that shipped with Eclair / Android 2.0 in Nov 2009: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getPressure()

The new devices saying "We're launching our competitor to 3D touch!" are literally just marketing.

I very very highly encourage you to not believe me and install something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch on the oldest Android device you have. It'll work.

Android has had 3D Touch (aka pressure sensitive touch events) since API level 5 that shipped with Eclair / Android 2.0 in Nov 2009: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getPressure()

The new devices saying "We're launching our competitor to 3D touch!" are literally just marketing.

I very very highly encourage you to not believe me and install something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch on the oldest Android device you have. It'll work.

Well, Android has actually got Force Touch since 2009, but not as developed as iPhones. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getPressure()

Here is a demo-app to try it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch

I don't have a solution for OP but after trying this I don't think this displays a "size" of a region that's touched, rather this displays the size of the area of screen not taken up by the nav bar (maybe the status bar as well)

as a side note I believe this is inspired by a now-deleted thread from /r/android which talks about the possibility of implementing something similar to 3D touch, the text of which I'll quote below:

> Yes you are reading the title right...a lot of android phones can measure how much force you applying to screen but its not used at software level for 95 of android phones beside galaxy Note's with Spen ( i guess its disabled for fingers touches on My note 2 tho ) just go to developer setting tick show pointer location and watch the one called (Prs) heres a test : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1c7hROQ3Pg (ignore the end of the video :D) btw you can try this app too : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch&hl=en its incompatible with my phone so yeah :/

For anyone wondering how precise is the android "3d touch api", just try it on this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch

I did like apple's 3d touch, and even though this is only a software thing on android, I do think developers could come up with similar things for us. Not necessarily copying apple, but coming up with new implementations instead.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch

What do you mean? Are you asking what they have done with it in the first place? Well nothing.. that was my point.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casual_dev.forcetouch

Let alone the fact that every single android smart phone features a pressure sensitive display, but nobody has implemented software built to take advantage of it because it's counterintuitive to have things hidden behind an unmarked gesture. Instead, android has gone with the long touch, a visual indication of progress around the UI until the long press is registered, making it impossible to do accidentally, unlike a touch being registered as too forceful.

If you'd like to try out force touch on your phone, this is a simple demo app that shows registered pressure. pressure sensitivity varies across devices as there's been no reason to standardize it, and devices with active digitizers like the Note line register pressure sensitivity through the stylus.