220-802 · Question #309
Which of the following allows a user to pinch zoom on an Android device?
The correct answer is C. Multi-touch. Pinch-to-zoom is a multi-touch gesture that requires the device screen to detect and track multiple simultaneous touch points.
Question
Which of the following allows a user to pinch zoom on an Android device?
Options
- AAccelerometer
- BMicro USB port
- CMulti-touch
- DA trackball
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A5% (1)
- C91% (20)
- D5% (1)
Why each option
Pinch-to-zoom is a multi-touch gesture that requires the device screen to detect and track multiple simultaneous touch points.
The accelerometer is an inertial sensor that measures linear acceleration and gravitational force, used for detecting device orientation and motion, not touch input.
The Micro USB port is a hardware connector for charging and data transfer and has no involvement in processing screen touch input.
Multi-touch is the screen technology that detects two or more simultaneous finger contacts and tracks their relative positions. The pinch-zoom gesture works by the OS interpreting the changing distance between two touch points reported by the multi-touch digitizer. Without multi-touch support, the device can only register one contact point at a time and cannot process pinch gestures.
A trackball is a physical navigational input device that moves a cursor; it does not support gesture-based input like pinch-to-zoom.
Concept tested: Multi-touch screen technology for gesture input
Source: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/touch-and-input/gestures/multi
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