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Simple Mobile Swipe function to get the swipe direction
var swipeFunc = {
touches : {
"touchstart": {"x":-1, "y":-1},
"touchmove" : {"x":-1, "y":-1},
"touchend" : false,
"direction" : "undetermined"
},
touchHandler: function(event) {
var touch;
if (typeof event !== 'undefined'){
event.preventDefault();
if (typeof event.touches !== 'undefined') {
touch = event.touches[0];
switch (event.type) {
case 'touchstart':
case 'touchmove':
swipeFunc.touches[event.type].x = touch.pageX;
swipeFunc.touches[event.type].y = touch.pageY;
break;
case 'touchend':
touches[event.type] = true;
if (swipeFunc.touches.touchstart.x > -1 && swipeFunc.touches.touchmove.x > -1) {
swipeFunc.touches.direction = swipeFunc.touches.touchstart.x < swipeFunc.touches.touchmove.x ? "right" : "left";
// DO STUFF HERE
alert(touches.direction);
}
default:
break;
}
}
}
},
init: function() {
document.addEventListener('touchstart', swipeFunc.touchHandler, false);
document.addEventListener('touchmove', swipeFunc.touchHandler, false);
document.addEventListener('touchend', swipeFunc.touchHandler, false);
}
};
swipeFunc.init();
@joerhoney
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Do you have any kind of demo site for this, or can you provide a JSFiddle or CodePen example or something? Javascript is not a second language some of us, but we can usually figure out how to use something like this if we have some examples to go by. Looks like a great script (especially with how lightweight it is), but I don't know how to integrate it into what I'm doing (which in my case is already an object, but that's another bag of tricks). A working demo would really help with integration. I know you don't have to provide that and I hope I'm not requesting too much, but that would really help show the value of this script, which to me looks like a potential winner.

@mikepaszkiewicz
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+1

@smohadjer
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smohadjer commented Jun 8, 2016

Throws error on iPad iOS 9.2 on line 21!
ReferenceError: Can't find variable: touches

You should use "swipeFunc.touches" rather than "touches" in lines 21 and 26. Also I had to comment out line 11 (event.preventDefault()) to avoid disabling browser scrolling.

@centhi
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centhi commented Jul 1, 2016

This is perfect.

But on some of the andorid devices doesn't able to get the touchend event when we not using the event.preventDefault(). Can you please help ?

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