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For questions about the hardware of Android devices. Note that asking for finding or recommending hardware (phones, tablets, accessories, etc.) is off-topic.

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What algorithm does Android used to translate touchscreen events to scancodes?

At this point, my understanding is this: With a physical keyboard, the keyboard hardware itself can send a scancode that can be translated to an actual keycode at the kernal level through a simple lookup … With a touchscreen, the hardware device is sending an X/Y position (along with some other data, but not a scancode), which then needs to usually be translated into a scancode by a previously exported virtual …
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