Unity's Touch API provides far fewer touches than Android OS receives (screenshot attached)

Hi,

With Android developer options I can enable Pointer Location and see all the touch points the OS receives as I slide my finger across the screen. However I've noticed that, when my game is deployed to my Android device, Unity receives far fewer touches than Android OS does; around half as many or fewer.

In my Unity game code I use Input.touchCount and InputGetTouch() to respond to touches in my game code.

At the moment my flick/swipe game is suffering because I receive fewer touches than are available from the OS.

Do you know if it is possible to create an Android plugin that :

- Responds to touch events at the OS level
- Keeps a list of all touch events
- Provides a list of new touch events since the last time my code asked for them ie; every Update()

Alternatively, is there a way to access the raw OS touches from the Unity API?

I've attached an annotated screenshot of a typical swipe showing 22 Android OS touches against 10 Unity touches. You will need to zoom in to see the Android touch points as they are single red pixels :

Thanks
Gareth

 

Hi, we have also seen problems with input in unity whenever our game has a small slow down or if we need to slow it in a worse device.

A listener solution for input as an extra would be awesome, something that allowed us to handle all input without missing any event.

 

Hi. The problem I have is present even when there is no slow down, in a simple test scene. Unity's Touch API loses half of the touches that the Android OS gets.