Hi guys I made a class which should make gesture recognition easier.
http://code.google.com/p/snowservices/wiki/SnowGesture
The fun thing, while testing I made a character recognizer for android using my lib. It's not production ready at all, but it was fun to implement and it kind of works .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrqxQpAapk

Impressive!
The "E"s and "R"s and "?" are a bit difficult to regonize, eh?

A question: The characters/traces can be defined from scratch and the number of them that you want?
I.e: Not using ABCDEFG...Z, and instead some custom traces.

ninor wrote:Impressive!
The "E"s and "R"s and "?" are a bit difficult to regonize, eh?

Yeah I had done the video a couple of time . But as I said, it was just to fool around a bit .

ninor wrote:A question: The characters/traces can be defined from scratch and the number of them that you want?
I.e: Not using ABCDEFG...Z, and instead some custom traces.

Yes you can define your own gestures, using the (current) 4 directions: U, D, R and L (Up, Down, Right, Left, ofcourse). If you take a look in the svn (CharacterRecognizer.java) you can see I make a HashMap with the gesture as key right in the onCreate(). Take a look at the wiki also, it has a simple example which should make everything clear. If not add some comment .

In a future release, I aim to add the 4 diagonal directions, and the recognition, has to be better, but for now, it's good enough. Most firefox gesture plugins use the same directions, so I guess this should help you get along .

Great application/API.
Maybe I'll use it in some kind of game

That would be awsome, if you make adjustments your self, let me know I could integrate them if they are generic enough. And thanks .

looks nice ... I'm just thinking of where I could use this...

I'm planning on using it as back button. And in a list view, when improved, character recognition could be used to quickly jump to the letter you entered (for example in contact list, music list, ...). Its a lot faster compared to getting out your keyboard, or even an onscreen keyboard.
But I haven't tested it in a ListView/ListActivity yet...

MrSnowflake wrote:I'm planning on using it as back button. And in a list view, when improved, character recognition could be used to quickly jump to the letter you entered (for example in contact list, music list, ...).

Yeah that are nice ideas, make it easy to use and it will spread.

help me, why when i write "A" the text field only show "LDRUD" not "A" ?? please i'm just a newbie in android. thnx before...