How to identify three finger tap in android

Question

I want to detect three finger tap in android screen.I am able to detect up to two fingers.How to detect three fingers it?I heard some where that android is capable of detecting 2 fingers.Is it so?

Answer 1

This code will can help you:

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)
{
    int action = event.getAction();
    switch(action & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK)
    {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN:
            // multitouch!! - touch down
            int count = event.getPointerCount(); // Number of 'fingers' in this time
            break;
    }
}