Determining Long Tap (Long Press, Tap Hold) on Android with jQuery

Question

I\'ve been able to successfully play with the touchstart, touchmove, and touchend events on Android using jQuery and an HTML page. Now I\'m trying to see what the trick is t

Answer 1

Why not just use a js timer? I did something like:

i=0;
$drink = document.getElementById('drink');
$drink.addEventListener('touchstart',function(event){
    $('#drink .mainBtnText').text('HOLD'); //mostly for debugging
    t = window.setInterval(function(event){
            i+=.5;
            if (i>=1){
                alert('taphold');
                window.clearInterval(t);
                i=0;
            }
        },500);
});
$drink.addEventListener('touchend',function(event){
    $('#drink .mainBtnText').text('Drink');
    i=0;
    window.clearInterval(t);
});

And I've had absolutely no trouble with it thus far...admittedly, I haven't done incredibly extensive device testing, but it's worked on my desktop (with mousedown/mouseup) as well as an HTC Droid Eris (Android 1.6) and my Droid RAZR (Android 2.3)...