Mobile platforms

Syntax#

public static int Input.touchCount
public static Touch Input.GetTouch(int index)

Detecting Touch

To detect a touch in Unity it’s quite simple we just have to use Input.GetTouch() and pass it an index.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class TouchExample : MonoBehaviour { 
    void Update() {
        if (Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Began)
        {
            //Do Stuff
        }
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class TouchExample : MonoBehaviour { 
    void Update() {
        for(int i = 0; i < Input.touchCount; i++)
        {
            if (Input.GetTouch(i).phase == TouchPhase.Began)
            {
                //Do Stuff
            }
        }    
    }
}

These examples gets the touch of the last game frame.

TouchPhase

Inside of the TouchPhase enum there are 5 different kind of TouchPhase’s

Began - a finger touched the screen
Moved - a finger moved on the screen
Stationary - a finger is on the screen but is not moving
Ended - a finger was lifted from the screen
Canceled - the system cancelled tracking for the touch

For example to move the object this script is attached to across the screen based on touch.

public class TouchMoveExample : MonoBehaviour 
{
    public float speed = 0.1f;

    void Update () {
        if(Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Moved)
        {
            Vector2 touchDeltaPosition = Input.GetTouch(0).deltaPosition;
            transform.Translate(-touchDeltaPosition.x * speed, -touchDeltaPosition.y * speed, 0);
        }
    }
}