How to detect a TOUCH event with another finger while an ACTION_MOVE is in process

Question

I am developing a game and I need to be able to detect that one finger is performing a MOVE while posibly another finger can TOUCH another part of the screen.

With the following code I am able to detect both the ACTION_MOVE (on certain region of the screen) and the ACTION_DOWN

public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    final int dest_x = (int) event.getX();
    final int dest_y = (int) event.getY();

    onTrackPad = dbSettings.TRACK_PAD.contains(dest_x, dest_y);

    switch (event.getAction()) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            if (onTrackPad) 
            {
                //move character 
            }         
            break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            // Fire bullets 
            break;
    }
    //The event was consumed
    return true;
}

The problem is that I am not able to move and fire at the same time (I need to stop moving in order to fire and viceversa)

I am aware that Android can handle multi-touch events but have not figure it how to use that to be able to process these events and the same time so that the player can move and fire at the same time

I have also try using the getActionMasked without any luck

Answer 1

After reading this question Android MotionEvent.getActionIndex() and MultiTouch

This is how I solved the problem

public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    int dest_x ;
    int dest_y ;

    p = event.getActionIndex() ;

    dest_x = (int) event.getX(p);
    dest_y = (int) event.getY(p);

    onTrackPad = dbSettings.TRACK_PAD.contains(dest_x, dest_y);

    action = event.getActionMasked() ;

    switch (action) {
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            if (onTrackPad) 
            {
                //move character 
            }         
            break;
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            // Fire bullets 
            break;
    }
    //The event was consumed
    return true;
}