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PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition)

You're reading from   PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition) Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392284
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First PhoneGap Project 3. Mobile Frameworks 4. Working with Plugins 5. Using Device Storage and the Files API 6. Using the Contacts and Camera APIs 7. Accessing the Device Sensors and Locations API 8. Advanced PhoneGap 9. Getting Ready for Release 10. A Sample PhoneGap Project A. The JavaScript Quick Cheat Sheet B. Publishing Your App C. Related Plugin Resources D. PhoneGap Tools Index

Handling click delays


We have seen that a mobile application can support various touch gestures. With the introduction of new technologies, differences between web apps and native mobile apps are getting close to zero, but not actually zero. One such difference is how click events are handled in mobile apps.

When you click on a button, mobile browsers wait for 300 ms to actually trigger the click event for the button that you have clicked. The actual reason is that the mobile browser waits to see whether the user wants to perform a click or a double click. After the 300 ms delay, if there is no other tap, it's considered as a single click. However, if there are no event handlers for double clicks, the delay will be unnecessary. By overcoming these delays, you can make your app more responsible and less laggy.

We are going to see an approach to avoid this 300 ms delay using the library called FastClick that is available at https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick. The steps are as follows:

  1. Include...

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