The same day Microsoft led an investment round in N-trig, a maker of multi-touch technology, individual programmer Luke Hutchinson managed to get multi-touch partially working for applications on Android.
He’s put together an amazing hack–and open-sourced it on his website–showing how multi-touch can be used with Android apps. The coolest bit is the demonstation using Google Maps about four minutes into the video.
Getting multi-touch to work requires a little bit of programming skill and there are some limitations with the Synaptic touchscreen of the T-Mobile G1. But if you can modify the Android Java stack, you should be able to get this going on your own.
