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As nickaugust says below, the hardware and the OS support multi-touch. It's just that Google's bundled apps don't use this support. As to the 190MB limit, thi
by jpschorr 17y ago
As nickaugust says below, the hardware and the OS support multi-touch. It's just that Google's bundled apps don't use this support.
As to the 190MB limit, this is true for executable bundles, but apps and games are free to use the rest of the storage for resources (datastores, textures, models, etc.). Also, at the Nexus One event yesterday, it was noted that Google is working on the ability to use the SD card for app storage.
- ajross 17y agoThe inability to store applications on the external card is a really frustrating shortcoming. It's trivially fixed in the modding community (for the phones that have been rooted, of course) by just putting an ext2 filesystem on the card and making a few symlinks, but Google doesn't want to support that because it breaks the "SD cards must be unpartitioned FAT filesystems" notion. Still, 190M is a lot of space for apps, most of which are no more than 1-2M. I'm not sure this is as big a crisis as it's made out to be.
- enomar 17y agoI believe they're more worried about making sure paid apps can't be cracked and published outside the market. Also, from the Nexus One has 512 MB of flash, not 200.
- ajross 17y agoNo, the apps can be pulled off the filesystem trivially on rooted devices anyway. I was whining to the developers on #android on freenode a while back, and the stated reason was indeed the hassle of supporting a non-standard external storage format. And the 190MB is no doubt the free space available on the internal filesystem. The G1 has much less, actually.