Touchmove (iOS) stops animation loop

[rocketjoe]

After sliding on iOS (touchmove), the animation loop stops regardless pauseOnAction or animationLoop settings. After sliding left or right the animation should resume.

[tylernotfound]

The swiping animation is working as intended. Pausing the animation loop is exactly what should happen when pauseOnAction is true, because a swipe is a declared action by the user. pauseOnHover is not a usability concept that applies to mobile, so if you don't respect pauseOnAction, sliders will get out of control and have seemingly random movements on the user.

Your issue sounds like a personal usability preference, which is fine. You can totally accomodate this. Use the after() callback to call slider.resume(). This will resume the slideshow after the animation has completed.

[rocketjoe]

Yes, animation is working as intended. But I set pauseOnAction on 'false' — and I think the animation loop should then restart/resume after swiping is done. Meanwhile we tried the after-callback-solution, but then, after the first completed animation loop, flexslider is getting wild! It slides in very short intervals — uncontrollable.

[rocketjoe]

Update: Got it working with a little workaround:

animation: "slide", //String: Select your animation type, "fade" or "slide"
slideDirection: "horizontal", //String: Select the sliding direction, "horizontal" or "vertical"
slideshow: true, //Boolean: Animate slider automatically
slideshowSpeed: 7000, //Integer: Set the speed of the slideshow cycling, in milliseconds
animationDuration: 500, //Integer: Set the speed of animations, in milliseconds
directionNav: false, //Boolean: Create navigation for previous/next navigation? (true/false)
controlNav: true, //Boolean: Create navigation for paging control of each clide? Note: Leave true for manualControls usage
keyboardNav: true, //Boolean: Allow slider navigating via keyboard left/right keys
mousewheel: false, //Boolean: Allow slider navigating via mousewheel
pausePlay: false, //Boolean: Create pause/play dynamic element
randomize: false, //Boolean: Randomize slide order
slideToStart: 0, //Integer: The slide that the slider should start on. Array notation (0 = first slide)
animationLoop: true, //Boolean: Should the animation loop? If false, directionNav will received "disable" classes at either end
pauseOnAction: false, //Boolean: Pause the slideshow when interacting with control elements, highly recommended.
pauseOnHover: false, //Boolean: Pause the slideshow when hovering over slider, then resume when no longer hovering
controlsContainer: "", //Selector: Declare which container the navigation elements should be appended too. Default container is the flexSlider element. Example use would be ".flexslider-container", "#container", etc. If the given element is not found, the default action will be taken.
manualControls: ".flex-control-nav tr td a", //Selector: Declare custom control navigation. Example would be ".flex-control-nav li" or "#tabs-nav li img", etc. The number of elements in your controlNav should match the number of slides/tabs.
start: function(){}, //Callback: function(slider) - Fires when the slider loads the first slide
before: function(){}, //Callback: function(slider) - Fires asynchronously with each slider animation
after: function(slider){ slider.pause(); slider.resume(); }, //Callback: function(slider) - Fires after each slider animation completes
end: function(){} //Callback: function(slider) - Fires when the slider reaches the last slide (asynchronous)

We had to first .pause() before .resume()! Otherwise flexslider goes crazy:

after: function(slider){ slider.pause(); slider.resume(); },

[goromlagche]

@rocketjoe put this up on a gist. Its pretty useful.

[briandowmobile]

On Flexslider 2 resume doesn't work.
Have to change code above to:

after: function(slider){ slider.pause(); slider.play(); },

and then is OK. Tested on my mobile and working.

[jeffikus]

@briandowmobile what version within the 2.x.x release versions do you mean?