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JavaScript Gesture Recognition for Touch Screens

• _sh 16y ago
  Android has a gesture recognition API in 2.2, implemented by one of the creators of the $1 recognition algorithm (the one implemented in the article). The creators of 'one-dollar' released the next generation of the algorithm, the $N multistroke algorithm, and here's an implementation of it in javascript: http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/ndollar.html http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/ndollar.htm...
  • taitems 16y ago
    Is the Android gesture recognition API you speak of purely back-end and not available in webkit?
    • _sh 16y ago
      Yes it is native, and no javascript bindings have been made for Android's webkit engine. It is packaged as a UI control that you overlay onto your application window and receive gesture events trhough it.
• raganwald 16y ago
  I was surprised to notice no-one had yet implemented web based touch and gesture recognition (for mobiles) to this degree iGesture is a jQuery plugin. It was discussed here on HN a while back, it extends work done on another library called jgesture: https://github.com/raganwald/iGesture https://github.com/raganwald/iGesture (This is blatant huffery and puffery, of course!)