iOS 8 touch area radius

Hi

Since iOS 8 you can use the radius of touch points, so pressing lightly with one finger will produce small radius, put pushing down big thumb or palm of your hand would produce a different result.

As a developer of apps for kids this interests me, as many children lean on the iPad when they are using it, so it would be good to ignore those inputs.

majorRadius in UITouch is what you need:
https://developer.apple.com/library...tml#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITouch/majorRadius

Apparently its on its way
https://twitter.com/willgoldstone/status/479504752955625472

Was wondering if anyone already has this working via their own functions?

This is how Paper are using majorRadius

Thanks

 

Bump! I badly want to play with this, too.

 

Hi all,

Do we know if this is still coming to Unity?

All touch input code coming from Unity, so to have to do a native plugin for touch input to enable this would be a bit rubbish

Thanks

 

Hi there,
I released a 3D Touch Input Plugin today which also supports the radius of touch points. It's not comparable to a integration into Unity but maybe it helps and is an alternative for you guys. Have a look here and if you have any questions or feedback let me know about it in my support thread.

 

Hello,
After spending 3 weeks in store review, my plugin went live today. It's 3d touch plugin, but radius is one of the touch properties that is returned by the plugin. If the game is based on Input.touches, then it's really plug and play. You can find the plugin here, and support thread is here.

 

Hey,

Almost a year now and Unity hasn't supported this yet or am I wrong?

Thanks,
jrDev

 

There's still no native support for touch radius.

 

Glad to know. I was about to work on iPad Pro plugin . After I did 3d touch plugin ...

 

Cool!

So this means it's coming in 5.3?

Thanks,
jrDev