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Android Developers: Use touch gestures

Documents Android touch-gesture support, including not depending on gestures for basic behavior, following accepted Android gesture conventions, detecting common gestures such as scrolling, flinging, double-tapping, multi-touch, dragging, scaling, and dispatching touch events to their target views.

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Touch gesture Choose touch gesture when the design question is the recognition, feedback, fallback, and cancellation behavior of touch input itself. The gesture starts only from the intended target or gesture region, not from unrelated content. Supports platform gesture conventions, common gesture detection, multi-touch, drag, scale, touch dispatch, and the warning not to depend on gestures for basic behavior.

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Publisher: Android Developers. Last checked: .