Google Places Autocomplete with Jquery Mobile not working on mobile/touch device

Question

As title suggests I am building a mobile website with JQuery Mobile (1.3.0) and am trying to implement Google Places Autocomplete (API v3) to aid user input of location data.

The autocomplete functions correctly on desktop device, but not when used on a mobile device (I have only tested on iOS 6).

When used on mobile device the dropdown list of relevant locations do appear, but simply disappear when you press one without loading the selection on the map.

I have looked around and seen some solutions that sight the z-index of

.pac-container

as the culprit (see: http://osdir.com/ml/google-maps-js-api-v3/2012-01/msg00823.html).

I have implemented these fixes but to no avail, and I am not convinced that z-index is the problem because I can see that the selected item does change to it's :hover state/colour when pressed on mobile.

Please if anyone has suggestions I am all ears, need any more details let me know.

Answer 1

Saravanan's answer is a bit overkill. To fix the conflict with FastClick and PAC, add the needsclick class to both the pac-item and all its children.

$(document).on({
    'DOMNodeInserted': function() {
        $('.pac-item, .pac-item span', this).addClass('needsclick');
    }
}, '.pac-container');

Answer 2

Thanks Daniel. But the solution I have given has some performance impact.

I have modifed the FastClick library little bit to accomplish that.

First I have added a param to FastClick constructor, where defaultElCls will be the elements which should not implement fastclick.

function FastClick(layer, defaultElCls) {
    'use strict';
    var oldOnClick, self = this;

    this.defaultElCls = defaultElCls;

Then modify needsClick method:

FastClick.prototype.needsClick = function(target) {
'use strict';
var nodeName = target.nodeName.toLowerCase();

if (nodeName === 'button' || nodeName === 'input') {

    // File inputs need real clicks on iOS 6 due to a browser bug (issue #68)
    // Don't send a synthetic click to disabled inputs (issue #62)
    if ((this.deviceIsIOS && target.type === 'file') || target.disabled) {
        return true;
    }       
} else if (nodeName === 'label' || nodeName === 'video') {
    return true;
}

return ((/\bneedsclick\b/).test(target.className) || (new RegExp(this.defaultElCls).test(target.className)));

};

Then pass pac-item to the FastClick constructor

new FastClick(document.body, "pac-item");

Hope this will be taken care by FastClick library as well :)