防止Android中的触摸事件延迟

Question

I'm building a Phonegap-based Android/iOS app. The app is supposed to detect swipes from the user.

On Android, when detecting the gestures, the app consistently displays delay of approximately 200ms before executing my code.

Reading around, I learned that this delay might be caused by how Android distinguishes swipes from normal taps. If you call e.preventDefault() before 200ms have elapsed since the touch, WebKit will let you handle it as a swipe.

Question:
Is there a way to completely remove this delay and force WebKit to assume the event is a swipe, thus removing the delay?

Answer 1

Actually, the delay is around 300ms and in this article [1], the reason why browser OEMs implemented this behaviour is given. There is a library called fastclick [2] that you can use to prevent this. Personally, I'm using polymer gestures which has a much broader scope but holistically solves the problem of detecting gestures and preventing the 300ms delay.

[1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/12/300ms-tap-delay-gone-away

[2] https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick

[3] https://github.com/Polymer/polymer-gestures