Detect finger drag using Javascript on touch phones?

Question

Is there a way to detect finger drags using Javascript on touch phones? I'm currently using jQuery and the mousemove() method doesn't appear to work on my Andorid phone.

EDIT: I suppose I should clarify that this is for a web application.

EDIT 2: I found a duplicate of my question a few moments ago: Detect a finger swipe through JavaScript on the iPhone and Android. Although, it does not have an accepted answer.

Answer 1

Use the analogous touch events: touchstart, touchmove, touchcancel, and touchend. To bind an event listener for one of these events, you'll have to use, for example .bind('touchmove', ...) instead of .touchmove(...), because jQuery does not provide convenience methods.