How to capture the onscreen keyboard 'keydown' and 'keyup' events for touch devices

Question

I have defined keyboard events which is working good in desktop but for touch devices not getting the onscreen keyboard event. I need to capture if user is typing. I have used the following segment of code :

$('#id').keydown(function(e){
  //some code here
});

$('#id').keyup(function(e){
  //some code here
})

I want the code defined in keydown and keyup to trigger even for touch devices (both tablets and mobiles). Please suggest how to capture the onscreen keyboard event and make the above code to run.

Solution

Have you tried using key press instead of key down

$("#id").keypress(function() {

});

Updated :

Due to android problems I now normally wrap my checks like this

if ($.browser.mozilla) {
    $("#id").keypress (keyPress);
} else {
    $("#id").keydown (keyPress);
}

function keyPress(e){
    doSomething;
}

Comments

[Dominic Green]

This is a pretty old answer now, I think recently I have come across this problem and have solved it for now by doing a simple check. I have updated my answer see if that works, let me know how you get on.

[px5x2]

$.browser deprecated and removed in jq 1.9.

[Herbert Van-Vliet]

I am using vue3, and it seems keyup fires, but keypress does not (Android 9, Chrome 88.0.4324.181). If your situation is like mine and you're using the events to do some form of validation or evaluation, the solution could be to rethink the requirements and combine the functions.