title: Android finger detection - Orientation and ellipse
body: <p>I've been looking for a way to detect the finger orientation together with a simplification of the touch area in the form of an ellipse, when using a mobile touch device. I choose Android rather than iOS since I found three usefull methods (<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getToolMajor%28int%29" rel="nofollow">getTouchMajor()</a>, <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getToolMinor%28int%29" rel="nofollow">getTouchMinor()</a>, and <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getOrientation%28int%29" rel="nofollow">getOrientation()</a>) in the Android reference for the <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html" rel="nofollow">MotionEvent class</a>.
  But I've tried to implement these three methods in my app, and sadly they does not return the wanted values. The orientation stays at 0, no matter what, while the getTouchMajor and getTouchMinor is exactly the same each time.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is: Am I doing somethign wrong or is these methods just not implemented yet?</p>
  
  <p>(I've tried the functions on several different devices including: Nexus 5, Nexus 7, and HTC One)</p>