Android Multitouch - Possible to test in emulator?

This is a post by a guy from the Android team who says that multitouch in the emulator is still not supported.

This is a post that describes how to use multitouch from a tethered phone.

Yeah I don't believe the emulator has that same shortcut that the iphone one.

In order to have true multi touch support for the emulator your Hardware must support it (HP TouchSmart .. etc.), your OS must support it (Windows 7 etc...) and Java must support it, and finally the emulator that Google provides in the SDK must support it.

So you would need to have specific hardware, the OS support is there but I don't believe java and emulator support is there.

I think you just need to get a 2.0 device. It seems like the most appropriate and cheapest solution is. Also the emulator really is not that great, to slow compared to an actually device especially on user input. All touch stuff should be developed and tested on an actual device. Use the emulator for automatic testing and layouts that are not supported by your physical test device.