jquery touch events

you can easily build your own touch events using the following events

touchstart
touchmove
touchend
touchcancel

Using jQuery
For example, the touchstart

$(document).on({ 'touchstart' : function() { 
 /* do something... */ 
    } 
});

Using Javascript
For example, the touchmove

document.addEventListener('touchmove', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var touch = e.touches[0];
    alert(touch.pageX + " - " + touch.pageY);
}, false);

<div>X: <span id="xtext">0</span> 
</div>
<div>Y: <span id="ytext">0</span>
</div>
<div>Event:
    <div id="eventName"></div>
</div>

function doTouch(name, e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var touch = e.touches[0];
    if (name != 'touchend') {
        document.getElementById("xtext").innerHTML = touch.pageX;
        document.getElementById("ytext").innerHTML = touch.pageY;
    }
    document.getElementById("eventName").innerHTML = name + '
' + document.getElementById("eventName").innerHTML;
}

document.addEventListener('touchstart', function (e) {
    doTouch('touchstart', e);
}, false);
document.addEventListener('touchmove', function (e) {
    doTouch('touchmove', e);
}, false);
document.addEventListener('touchend', function (e) {
    doTouch('touchend', e);
}, false);

jQuery Mobile offers several custom events that build upon native events to create useful hooks for development.
Which is also work on IOS devices as well.
Touch events