Detecting When You Are Running on a Device with DirectStylus Support

There are times when it is desirable or necessary for your application to know when it is running on a device with DirectStylus support.

It is easy for you to detect this inside of your application. You simply need to query the PackageManager for a list of available system features and search for the necessary strings.

The following are currently defined features that you can search for:

System Feature Description
com.nvidia.feature.DirectStylus If present, indicates the device supports DirectStylus.

For backward compatibility with existing devices, please see com.nvidia.nvsi.feature.DirectStylus below.
com.nvidia.nvsi.feature.DirectStylus If present, indicates the device supports DirectStylus.

DEPRECATED: Please check for this feature flag for backward compatibility with existing devices, but also check for com.nvidia.feature.DirectStylus to ensure future compatibility.

The following is a code sample that shows how to detect if the device supports DirectStylus:

final android.content.pm.PackageManager packageManager = activity.getPackageManager(); 
final android.content.pm.FeatureInfo[] featuresList = packageManager.getSystemAvailableFeatures();
for (android.content.pm.FeatureInfo f : featuresList)
{
     if (f.name != null && (f.name.equals("com.nvidia.feature.DirectStylus") ||
f.name.equals("com.nvidia.nvsi.feature.DirectStylus")) // for backward compatibility
     {
         // running on device that supports DirectStylus
     }
}

 

 

 


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