Autorepeat held button on webpage on Android - javascript

I have a page that autorepeats a button when held. On mousedown it begins an interval and on mouseup it stops. It works flawlessly on my computer. However, it doesn't do anything in Android. Is there something you have to set for Android to allow repeating?

It might be that you need touchstart and touchend events instead. Here is some documentation on MDN

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Detect "long press" on touch devices

I'm using contextmenu event to capture right clicks. On touch devices that event fired via "long press".
The problem I'm experiencing is that the contextmenu event doesn't fire on touch devices until touch is released. I could listen for touchstart/mousedown events and set timeout, but it won't be accurate since each device might have its own delay for long press activation.
So, is there a way accurately detect when long press is activated on touch screen devices? (On some devices there is haptic feedback when long press was activated)
As discussed in the comment section.
On most devices contextmenu fires without releasing the touch, so in most cases it should be fine to use the contextmenu event to get the desired result.
This might be a bug in the DevTools of Chromium, since you tested with that. I recommend to simply use the contextmenu event.
In case the specific device really fires the context menu on touch release, the user expects the same behavior on your website/app, so it should be fine to go this route.

Portable way to get Rx stream of all mouse clicks

I wrote React component which listens to few types of js events (click, scroll, keyup). For the first time it seems work's well, but I noticed that on my IPad click events are ignored. I attached my Ipad to Safari remote debugger but haven't found any errors in console.
I think the problem is in the following line.
const windowClickStream = Rx.Observable.fromEvent(window, 'click');
it works in Chrome and Desktop Safary but doesn't work on my Ipad.
My question is:
how to get portable Rx stream of all click events on the web page?
I had a similar problem few months ago and solved this by changing the event listener. The "click" event is at first for desktop applications with a real mouse or touchpad. It takes 300ms until the event is triggered because the browser waits for an additional click to trigger a "dblclick" event. The webkit browser fire an "touchstart" event immediately after you touch the screen.

Javascript/JQuery - Controlling the iOS keypad

Based on my previous post where I attempt to fire off an event before the keypad opens on iOS, I am using the "touchstart" option to fire off an event.
Fire Event before 'focus' kicks in / Fire Event before keyboard appears on iOS
This works great, but when the device is slightly delayed the touchstart doesn't fire quick enough before the blur so the keyboard appears before the code is fired which is a major issue (we are working around the position: fixed;) issue.
My question is this:
Is there any way to control the keypad? Adding a timer or anything (even a code break) on the touchstart doesn't stop the keypad appearing on blur (when the touch is removed).
Thank you!

Jquery touchend firing before finger is released

I want to do Two things...do something when we touch the screen and when we release finger from screen..But touchend function below triggers alert box even before i release my finger.Where i am wrong ?
$(window).on('touchend', function(e){
alert("finger released");
});
$(window).on('touchstart', function(e){
//touch started
});
This is actually a known bug in webkit. Try to use touchmove instead if it suits your needs, or touchcancel is sometimes fired in place of touchend. BTW it works fine on Firefox (on Android at least, I don't even know if FF exists on iOS).
EDIT
What you can do also is playing around with preventDefault(); on the touchstart event, but as it said by it's name, it prevents the default behavior, so once again, it depends on your needs.

How to detect mouse click and hold in Android browser?

I am writing a webpage that is intended to be viewed on Android phones and hopefully other mobile devices. I am going with a webpage as opposed to an App because it is more platform independent.
I would like to perform an operation continuously while the uses is clicking and holding a button on the webpage. On mobile device the operation would run continuously when they hold their finger on the button on the webpage.
I have tried using the javascript function setInterval() on the onmousedown event of my input button and clearInterval() on the onmouseup event. This works perfectly when accessing the device from any browser on a PC. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my Android phone. The button appearance does seem to change to the held state when pressed and held but the onmousedown event doesn't get called.
Has anyone found a good way to do press-and-hold button actions that is compatible with Android devices?
Check here:
What DOM events are available to WebKit on Android?
and here:
Quirksmode.org/mobile
Seems that you need to use some of the DOM or touch handlers (last one may have problems when using trackbal)

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