Simply capture touch events
Swipey is a simple plugin to capture all nature of touchevents. It allows for handling pinch/zoom, directional swipes up/down/left/right/diagonals, while also being able to separate these out for how many touches made the action. So a 2-finger swipe left can be handled separately to a single finger swipe left for instance.
It is configurable to specify how far dictates a 'swipe' or a 'pinch', and allows for desktop support also.
When capturing the event, relevant information is passed back in the result, such as speed of action, and the location.