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Pfonseca: Swipe Detection On Unity

This document describes a C# script for detecting swipes on mobile devices using Unity. The script uses TouchPhase events to detect when a touch begins, is canceled, or ends. It calculates the gesture time and distance to determine if it was a valid swipe gesture. The direction of the swipe is determined by comparing horizontal and vertical movement. If a swipe is detected, the appropriate direction (left, right, up, down) is returned as a Vector2.

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Pfonseca: Swipe Detection On Unity

This document describes a C# script for detecting swipes on mobile devices using Unity. The script uses TouchPhase events to detect when a touch begins, is canceled, or ends. It calculates the gesture time and distance to determine if it was a valid swipe gesture. The direction of the swipe is determined by comparing horizontal and vertical movement. If a swipe is detected, the appropriate direction (left, right, up, down) is returned as a Vector2.

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Swipe detection on Unity


This is a simple class to use swipe on mobile devices with Unity.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class SwipeScript : MonoBehaviour {
private float fingerStartTime = 0.0f;
private Vector2 fingerStartPos = Vector2.zero;
private bool isSwipe = false;
private float minSwipeDist = 50.0f;
private float maxSwipeTime = 0.5f;
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
if (Input.touchCount > 0){
foreach (Touch touch in Input.touches)
{
switch (touch.phase)
{
case TouchPhase.Began :
/* this is a new touch */
isSwipe = true;
fingerStartTime = Time.time;
fingerStartPos = touch.position;
break;
case TouchPhase.Canceled :
/* The touch is being canceled */
isSwipe = false;
break;
case TouchPhase.Ended :
float gestureTime = Time.time - fingerStartTime;
float gestureDist = (touch.position - fingerStartPos).magnitude;
if (isSwipe && gestureTime < maxSwipeTime && gestureDist > minSwipeDist){
Vector2 direction = touch.position - fingerStartPos;
Vector2 swipeType = Vector2.zero;
if (Mathf.Abs(direction.x) > Mathf.Abs(direction.y)){
// the swipe is horizontal:
swipeType = Vector2.right * Mathf.Sign(direction.x);
}else{
// the swipe is vertical:
swipeType = Vector2.up * Mathf.Sign(direction.y);
}
if(swipeType.x != 0.0f){
if(swipeType.x > 0.0f){
// MOVE RIGHT
}else{
// MOVE LEFT
}
}
if(swipeType.y != 0.0f ){
if(swipeType.y > 0.0f){
// MOVE UP
}else{
// MOVE DOWN
}
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}
}
break;
}
}
}
}
}
Published on 07/01/2015 at 02h20 by pfonseca, tags Unity

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6 comments
by Rahul Singh 19/10/2015 at 15h31
Awesome script..Thanks a lot.
by Logan Branjord 14/07/2015 at 20h58
This script worked great for me. Thanks for providing this. Ive used at least 10 other swipe scripts and I use this as my base now instead of any of
those.
by Num_T 14/06/2015 at 20h50
I may be getting slightly confused here. This code has been a great start for me and is working more or less as I expect.
However, I want to go on to perform more advanced stuff with it such as treating touches differently by determining whether they meet my criteria
for a swipe or not and I am a little concerned about the fact that there is of course an array of touches.
Shouldnt each touch have its own start time / end time, start position / end position? In theory are they overwriting each other at the moment? So if
you started a new touch at a critical moment say a frame before one was about to end it would reset the start time counter for example and what
should register as a swipe on the older touch would not?
If so I would probably go about setting up my own touch object inheriting from the Touch one and use instances with their own start end variables
etc. I was just wondering if I am right in thinking there is a potential problem as is or am just getting confused?!
Cheers
by sooon 06/05/2015 at 01h40
Hi, Thanks for the script. Work like a charm. Just curious, would it be better if using FixedUpdate? According to the document it update more
frequent than Update.
by PFonseca 07/04/2015 at 22h48
Ill try to create a double tap script.
by Gerick 19/03/2015 at 03h20
great!, thanks a lot
any idea for tap or double tap?

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