Phoengap App Not Detecting Swipe

I have a PhoneGap 2.9 app running on Android 4.4 and it takes several tries to detect a swipe event from jQuery Mobile (v.1.10). This same code runs beautifully on Android 4.3. I

Solution 1:

Set the target SDK to 18 instead of 19 to force the new webview in kitkat to operate in compatibility mode.