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by moron4hire 168 days ago
You can emulate pressure sensitivity on Android by tracking the change in the radius of the touch point. With a little effort, it can be made to be nearly identical to the iOS system. I'd go into it or link you to some code, but it was like a decade ago that I last did it. I just remember I got it to work and it was fun.
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Apple ditched the pressure sensitive screens like 6 years ago.
I still miss it. Worse was they didn't just remove the hardware on newer models, but older models that did have the hardware available had the functionality removed overnight by an iOS update. If I recall it was over some licensing/patent dispute. (plus the feature itself was somewhat polarizing, not everyone found it intuitive)