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Magic Trackpad 2 and multitouch in Android emulator
Hi Francesco_Paolo_Torre,
Thank you very much for your feedback!
My name is Andrei, part of the Surface Duo DevX team.
As we understand, you can use the graphical tablet and pen to draw in your app running in the Android Emulator, but you cannot zoom or swipe in the app using the trackpad gestures, is this correct ?
I just checked this on my Surface Laptop and I get the same behavior,
the two finger pinch touchpad gesture does not translate to the emulator.
Unfortunately, touchpad gestures were not a part of our multitouch contribution to the Android Emulator project, mainly because they are not standardized across operating systems.
For me, on Surface, two finger touchpad swipe translates into vertical swipe in the emulator and also tap three times and hold then move translates in pinch to zoom.
You can also use the old pinch to zoom method in the emulator: press Ctrl (or command on Mac) + touchpad button press, then move in or out.
All the best,
Best regards,
Francesco