Phonegap 2.4.0 with Android 4.2 - strange double click behaviour

Question

I\'m using phonegap 2.4.0 to create an Android and iOS App.

Now I recognized that the onclick event in links is fired twice inside the Android App using Android 4.2.

Answer 1

I was facing the exact same issue, but my app/game needed the user to be able to double tap, on touchstart. So the scirra solution mentioned above wasn't usable as a required delay of 500 or 1000 ms kills the doubletap.

After some digging I noticed a difference between the first (user) tap and the second (bug) tap:

event.originalEvent.touches 

isn't available in the second bug tap. So I wrote this bug detection helper which solved my case:

function isDoubleTapBug (e) {
  // only handle touch events (in case your listener works on mouse events too)
  if (!'ontouchstart' in document.documentElement)) 
    return false;
  if (!e.originalEvent.touches) {
    e.preventDefault();
    e.stopPropagation();
    return true; // indicate to caller that it's a bug
  }
  return false;
}

Then in your listener, do this:

document.addEventListener('touchstart', function (e) {
  if (isDoubleTapBug(e))
    return false;
  // now do your actual event handling stuff...      
}