On the short them, it would help solve 'Android fragmentation' problems: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/android-cts-4.0.3_r2/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java#L6044
https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/webkit/WebViewClassic.java#L5824 Android doesn't exactly pass the touchstart etc.. events to webkit the same way and more importantly with the same delays. Not to mention, some versions have bugs (missing touchend, touchmove events). If coding a pure HTML/javascript app, you can avoid the 'native' onTouch() processing and pass events faster to your app. It's an educated guess at the moment, but I'm quite sure performance / response time for the user on all platforms will be better if the gesture detection is done on the native side. On the long term, I don't see how JavaScript libraries would allow (within reasonable ms) for more complex 'gesture' detection. I would rather do something like: webView.addGesture('swipe'); webView.addGesture('handgrab'); onTouch/Gesture: // do gesture detection in native code webView.sendJavascript("cordova.fireEvent('handgrab', {node, ...}"); -----Original Message----- From: Filip Maj [mailto:f...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:47 PM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Standardized gestures I'm not convinced you need any additional code here. Touch events are already fired by the web view containers. You could build up gesture detection in JavaScript by listening to these events. There are libraries out there that do this for you already: - http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/ - http://quojs.tapquo.com/ - https://github.com/plainview/Jester - jquery ui plugin: http://touchpunch.furf.com/ - jquery plugin: http://labs.rampinteractive.co.uk/touchSwipe/demos/ - moar jquery: https://github.com/HotStudio/touchy On 4/17/13 9:42 AM, "jbo...@openmv.com" <jbo...@openmv.com> wrote: >I'm experimenting with Cordova on Android, iOS and Windows 8. > >Has there been a discussion around trying to implement to set of >'standard' gesture recognizers: >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/BR241937 >http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/EventHandling/Con >cep >tual/EventHandlingiPhoneOS/GestureRecognizer_basics/GestureRecognizer_b >asi >cs.html >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/GestureDetector.htm >l > >The idea would be that the native side executes JavaScript like: >javascript:cordova.fireEvent('tap', {node: >document.elementFromPoint(400, 300), x: 400, y:300 }); >javascript:cordova.fireEvent('slide', {node: >document.elementFromPoint(400, 300), x: 400, y:300}); > >This function could use document.createEvent to initiate events on the >DOM node: >https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/document.createEvent > >The purpose of this would be to have a consistent set of gesture >recognition across different devices instead of having javascript code >in the 'WebView' trying to do gesture detection. > >Thoughts? >
