Keep cube spinning after fling

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Published on 2013-10-18T10:04:45Z Indexed on 2013/10/18 10:19 UTC
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So I've been trying to get started with game development for Android using Unity3D. For my first project I've made a simple cube that you can spin using touch. For that I have the following code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class TouchScript : MonoBehaviour {

float speed = 0.4f;
bool canRotate = false;
Transform cachedTransform;

public bool CanRotate {
    get { return canRotate; } 
    private set { canRotate = value; } 
}

void Start () {
    // Make reference to transform
    cachedTransform = transform;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
    if (Input.touchCount > 0) {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch (0);

        // Switch through touch events
        switch (Input.GetTouch (0).phase) {
        case TouchPhase.Began:  
            if (VerifyTouch (touch))
                CanRotate = true;
            break;
        case TouchPhase.Moved:  
            if (CanRotate)
                RotateObject (touch);
            break;
        case TouchPhase.Ended:  
            CanRotate = false;
            break;
        }
    }
}

bool VerifyTouch (Touch touch) {
    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (touch.position);
    RaycastHit hit;

    // Check if there is a collider attached already, otherwise add one on the fly
    if (collider == null) gameObject.AddComponent (typeof(BoxCollider));

    if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit)) {
        if (hit.collider.gameObject == this.gameObject)
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

void RotateObject (Touch touch) {
    cachedTransform.Rotate (new Vector3 (touch.deltaPosition.y, -touch.deltaPosition.x, 0) * speed, Space.World);
}   

}

The above code works fine. However, I'm wondering how I can keep the cube spinning after the user lifts his finger. The user should be able to "fling" the cube, which would keep spinning and after a while would slowly come to a stop due to drag.

Should I do this using AddForce or something? I'm really new to this stuff so I'd like it if you guys could point me in the right direction here :) .

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