Scripting for touch screens

Unity Engine
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I’m new to programming and game design in general, I would like to know if scripting for mouse and keyboard differ greatly from touch screens such as tablets and smarthphones.

I have a game I’m trying to create and I want the user to press on the screen and hold their finger on the sprite in order to activate a powerbar that will dictate how powerful the launch will be, once the user releases their finger the sprite will launch a projectile.

On PC, from what I know, I’d assign a keyboard key to the script that would trigger the action, how does some one do this on touch, as in, what part of the code detects when a user has their finger on the device and off the device?

Thanks much for your time.

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any of the mouse inputs work for tablets or phone

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For trivial input you can use mouse input, but for anything more complex you need to use touch events as described on the Input page in the docs.

–Eric