How do I control my actor with swipe on mobile

I'm trying to control each actor by swiping them with my finger in the direction I want it to go .

couldn't find any tutorial that fit my question here scirra.com/tutorials/all

There's lots of different ways to do it.

1) Record the position of where the player first starts touching eg: (StartX, StartY)

Then compare that value to where they let go

(on touch end) compare 2 values StartX > Touch.X - > player swipped left

If the touch was to the right of the start position, then the player swipped right.