Adb shell getevent method returns twice the value for X and Y on Nexus 4

Question

I am currently trying to generate a complex gesture via the sendevent command of adb shell. In order to replay a gesture, I recorded the events via the ge

Answer 1

Those are input device (i.e. touch screen) coordinates. Touch screen is a separate device which may have a different resolution from the display.

To check the resolution of your touch screen do

getevent -il /dev/input/event2 | grep ABS_MT_POSITION

and look at the max values