Replicating the iPhone Swipe Gesture – Vertical swiping

For those who wanted a vertical swiping feature to the the swipe gesture gallery that I created earlier, this post has a new demo and minimal explanation about a vertical swipe gesture gallery. Now you can swipe the images up or down.
I will not go through the basics once again as I have explained them in details in my previous posts. You can refer them once again in these two tutorials – post 1, post 2. Check out the demo below. Open the link in a webkit browser in either your mobile device or your computer.

Demo link: http://rialab.jbk404.site50.net/swipegesture/vertical/

Below is a screenshot of the gallery in action. You can see that the images are being moved vertically.

Screenshot of vertical swiping through images

Replicating the iPhone Swipe Gesture – auto scrolling feature

This is an update to the Replicating touch swipe gesture javascript implementation series that I have been writing for some time now and this time I have tried out the auto scrolling feature. Sometimes users may want a auto scrolling along with the normal swipe gesture feature. This post will talk about it and the changes to code that were made to make it auto scroll. First let’s check out the demo, the demo runs in both computer webkit browsers and mobile webkit browsers.

Demo link: http://rialab.jbk404.site50.net/swipegesture/auto_scrolling/

Now, let’s talk on the implementation,
First the features of this demo-

• Auto scrolling – the gallery slides change automatically at periodical times. Based on the requirement specify whether auto scroll stops on user interaction or continues.
• Looping – the gallery loops and is circular.
• Direction – supports two direction – left or right. Specify which direction the gallery should auto scroll.
• Click/Tap to URL – click or tap to open URL’s.
• Swipe gesture – and then the touch based swipe gesture for mobiles is available as well.

Circular swipe gesture gallery – looping through images

This is another update to the regular swipe gesture gallery that I created in two of my earlier post – post1, post2. This time I have implemented the looping feature for the images. The gallery never ends, instead you swipe it in a circular motion. So, whenever you reach the end of the list, swipe again from right to left across your device’s screen to see the first image and also when you reach the beginning of the list you swipe from left to right of your device’s screen to see the last image again. Try out the demo first and you will get a feel of it. Check out the demo in a webkit desktop browser (Chrome, Safari) or an iOS/Android device’s browser. Click on any image to open a URL as well. So, click/tap to open URL is included.

Demo link: http://rialab.jbk404.site50.net/swipegesture/circular/

An instance of the demo application – with reduced opacity and exposed images, the darker one being the one currently displayed and is inside the wrapper div.

360 degree car rotation – common code for mobiles and computer browsers

I had been updating my examples and tutorials off  lately and trying to create a more general approach to application development – Write a single app that runs in mobile browsers as well as computer browsers. Following the same approach, this time I am updating one of my previous tutorials – 360 Degree Car/Product rotation for iPhones. So, I worked on a 36o degree car rotation code that runs in both mobile and desktop browsers.

This tutorial is an update to my previous one, I also present a new demo. I will not go into the details, which I have talked about in my previous tutorial. Have a look at the demo, open it in either an iOS browser or a computer web-kit browser.

Link: http://jbk404.site50.net/360DegreeView/mobile/common.html

360 degree car rotation in mobile safari

What are the changes?

All the changes are in the javascript code. I have introduced a device detection mechanism and then automatically assign either touch events (for mobiles) or mouse events (for computer browsers). These are the same changes that I have recently talked of in my last post – Replicating the iPhone Swipe Gesture — common code for mobiles and computer browsers. That should help you out.

Other than that just try the example link in a computer web-kit browser – Chrome/Safari or an iOS device browser which is also a web-kit browser. Android devices need some changes and the same code might not work. I have talked on this in my previous post.

For the code, right click to view the source.

Replicating the iPhone Swipe Gesture – common code for mobiles and computer browsers.

This is another update for the iPhone Swipe Gesture that I have created. This is the third update to the series – Part 1 and Part 2. In case you have missed out of the earlier tutorials and detailed explanation then you can have a look at them first, before proceeding with this tutorial. What I have been able to achieve is that, I have replicated the native iPhone swipe gesture for the iPhone web-kit browser. So, throughout the series I have been able to create a HTML/JavaScript/CSS3 version of the swipe gesture. If in case, again you are not sure of the swipe gesture and swiping, I would recommend to go through my previous tutorials – Part1 and Part2.

Now, the update and the agenda of this tutorial is that – I have developed a common universal code for mobile browsers and computer browsers. Note that when I am saying browsers I mean web-kit browsers – Chrome & Safari in computers, and then the default web browsers in iOS and Android mobiles. The major changes are in the javascript code, where I have automated the user event handling process. What this means is that for mobile devices touch based events are registered and listened to and then for computer browsers mouse based events are registered and handled by the script automatically. This way there is no need to hard code touch events for mobiles and mouse events for computers. The same code works everywhere.

But, still to support different device screen sizes you will need to make changes to the CSS or the asset (images) sizes. The demo that I have worked on, I have considered the iPhone resolution – 320 x 416.

Check out the demo (same link works in mobiles and computers): http://rialab.jbk404.site50.net/swipegesture/common/

Common implementation for mobiles and computers