initializing iscroll with phonegap and jQuery mobile - android

I have built a project using phonegap and jquery mobile, and have iscroll working perfectly on the first page. However on my second page iscroll isn't running. Can someone tell me how you initialize a jquery script on the page in JQM? I am new to both platforms and think it may be a simple mistake! Thanks

I never used phonegap, but im building a JQM-webapp as well, so i hope this works for you.
iScroll seems to cause several problems trying to implement it in JQM. This is why they came up with jquery.mobile.iscrollview which bascically adapts the iScroll javascript to the jQuery Mobile environment.
Just include the script and add data-iscroll="" to your div. And include all of your scripts in the given order.

checkDOMChanges: set to false to prevent auto refresh on DOM changes. If you switch off this feature you have to call iScroll.refresh() function programmatically every time the DOM gets modified. If your code makes many subsequent DOM modifications it is suggested to set checkDOMChanges to false and to refresh the iScroll only once (ie: when all changes have been done). Default true.
see more on there page:http://cubiq.org/iscroll

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I'm trying to develop a hybrid app for ios/android/windows. In the app, I'll have the occasional button that needs to trigger some actions.
Generally I'd use .on('click', function() { ... });, but I've learned that click doesn't really cooperate with mobile devices.
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Next I tried to see if there was perhaps any css blocking my triggers, but nothing consistent.
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Write clean HTML with a clean structure, try to make the dom simple.
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Don't use jQuery for everything. jQuery is great, but a lot of operations can be done with simple javascript.
Don't use jQuery-plugins for things that can be done easily with javascript.
Make a single-page-html-app and avoid to use multiple html-pages. This is the best way to slow down the speed of your app and to make the development complicate.
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Use tap instead of click.

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http://t.co/kAJ7mrj5
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