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jmcdale
jmcdale

Reputation: 4463

How to Always Emulate Touch Events in Chrome Dev Tools?

I just update Chrome to v29.0.1547.57 and turning on 'Emulate Touch Events' (DevTools-->Overrides-->Emulate Touch Events) is no longer saved when I exit tabs. I exclusively work on mobile development and it is going to be a major pain if I now have to manually turn on touch emulation every time I open DevTools. I've looked through all of the extension API and DevTools documentation and found nothing. Does anyone know how I can always Emulate Touch Events when DevTools are open?

[EDIT] This is not an issue in Chrome Canary (v31). It looks like it was fixed back in July. I've been having some other issues with the current Canary build, though, so I would still like to be able to emulate touch events in the current stable build.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11786

Answers (3)

atmd
atmd

Reputation: 7490

This is an old question but as I found it on google and there is no answer I thou'g I'd add one.

currently setting the --touch-devices flag on chrome start up set chrome up to fire touch events on devices.

N.b. I am working on a touch screen device using touch enabled monitors and a packaged chrome app. Setting this flag in the start up config allows touchstart, touchend etc to be fired.

Upvotes: 0

yeahdixon
yeahdixon

Reputation: 6934

chrome://flags

look for Enable touch events

Upvotes: 3

Paul Irish
Paul Irish

Reputation: 49142

You can start Chrome with --simulate-touch-screen-with-mouse which was recently renamed from --emulate-touch-events. How to use these command line flags

Unfortunately there is no way to persist the touch event emulation across restarts at the moment.

Upvotes: 3

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