Using touch events in cordova windos app

Question

I am creating an application for windows using cordova that heavily relies on touch events such as touchstart and touchmove. These events work fine in the android and iOS version but they are not fired in the windows version. Instead the browser tries to scroll the page on touches (note: I am calling the event.preventDefault function on touchstart. but the event doesn't even fire).

In this case the edge browser has the same behaviour as the cordova app. In edge the is an option when u navigate to about:flags called enable touch events when this flag is set to Always on or Only on when a touchscreen is detected the application works perfectly. I was wondering if it is plausible to set this flag in the cordova application.

Answer 1

2 years later, facing the same issue and found a solution by setting this in the CSS :

body { touch-action:none; }

I've also managed to make a jQuery slider inside an iframe in a Cordova App work correctly in tablet mode by using :

iframe { touch-action:none; }