We had previously many talks about getting multitouch support for Android, and you probably remember Luke’s work to demonstrate capabilities of G1 to run multi-touch. Today we have a breaking news from France, a team from the ENAC interactive computing laboratory - including Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar, Stephane Chatty and Sebastien Hamdani - succeeded to bring native multitouch support to Linux.

The code released is a proof-of-concept of what could be done with linux kernel and need to be improved for production, but you can see already a demo in the video below of their actual work

To run the sample provide you will need Linux kernel 2.6.30; a computer with a Broadcom 5974, Stantum, NTrig or DiamondTouch surface (the HP TouchSmart tx2 has a Ntrig surface, but you need to get the appropriate firmware from the NTrig site); their NTrig, Stantum, or DiamondTouch driver, or the Broadcom 5974 driver from Henrik Rydberg; in addition to demo code.

More information could be found here

Today is the day that everyone is expecting to get a first taste of Android technology and get the SDK for the first time. It’s amazing how a project with such number of members was kept secret for all this time. We was following opinions since last monday and many things unknown are now more clear especially the commitment of Google and other partners in the project, the choice of linux, the open license Apache V2, … etc. And defintely, Eric Schmidt answer on the Google’s strategy to monetize Android is self-explanatory :

“We’re likely to want to enter into such agreements with handset partners because sharing in the revenue, sharing in the advertising, produces just a better total ecosystem. Our whole strategy around partnership has been to work with people, literally share in the profits, share in the revenue, under whatever terms make sense, because then everybody’s in alignment. The fact that Android allows it does not require it. I think it’s highly likely we would do it.”