Android/ phonegap - Click response time slow

Question

I am close to working out a solution courtesy of ghostCoder hinting at the idea of detecting the touch event rather than the click event. This below code is what I currently have, however something is still not quite right. It works on my homepage (very basic page), however with the actual game page it breaks:

Here is my code: JAVASCRIPT:

var b=document.getElementById('STOP'),start=0;

//Check for touchstart
if('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) 
{
    document.getElementById("notouchstart").style.display = "none";
}

//Add a listener that fires at the beginning of each interaction
[b].forEach(function(el){el.addEventListener('touchstart',interact);});

//Add the event handlers for each button
b.addEventListener('touchstart',highlight);

//Functions Store the time when the user initiated an action
function interact(e) 
{
    start = new Date();
}

//Highlight what the user selected and calculate how long it took the action to occur
function highlight(e) 
{
    e.preventDefault();
    e.currentTarget.className="active";
    if(start)
    {
        alert("test")
    }
    start = null;
}

BODY BUTTONS (firstly displays start button then when clicked displays stop button, then start again etc.)

    <INPUT TYPE="button" style="background:url(images/Start_Btn.png); background-color:transparent; width:150px; height:186px; border:none; cursor:pointer;" id="START" onClick="startBTN();">
    <INPUT TYPE="button" style="background:url(images/Stop_Btn.png); background-color:transparent; width:150px; height:186px; border:none; cursor:pointer;" id="STOP">

Thanks,

Answer 1

I have used touchend for this. touchstart is being triggered even though the action is drag/scroll.

Answer 2

Listen for ‘touchstart’ instead of ‘click' :)
click is a bit delayed in touchscreens. http://floatlearning.com/2011/03/developing-better-phonegap-apps/