Tap gesture events on overlapping area - ios

Question

I have a view that is with the black border and it has two different views on it. And these views are overlapping in a small area. And each of them has own UITapGestureRecognizer. When I tap each item's discrete area, the action of that item is triggered. But when I tap the common area, only the second view's action is triggered. I want that both actions have to be triggered. How can I achieve this? Here is my code:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var view1: UIView!
#IBOutlet weak var view2: UIView!
#IBOutlet weak var outerView: UIView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
outerView.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
outerView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
view1.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
view1.layer.borderColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
view2.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
view2.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blue.cgColor
self.initialize()
}
private func initialize(){
let tapGesture1 = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap1(_:)))
let tapGesture2 = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap2(_:)))
self.view1.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture1)
self.view2.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture2)
}
#objc func detectTap1(_ gesture : UITapGestureRecognizer) {
print("detectTap1")
}
#objc func detectTap2(_ gesture : UITapGestureRecognizer) {
print("detectTap2")
}
}
Kindly share your suggestions.

Answer 1

For this problem i have found this solution, maybe is not the best solution but it works, i will look for further improvements anyway
I had subclassed UIGestureRecognizer class
Updated
import UIKit
import UIKit.UIGestureRecognizerSubclass
class CustomGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer {
var anotherGestureRecognizer : CustomGestureRecognizer?
private var touchBeganSended : Bool = false
private var touchLocation : CGPoint?
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent) {
super.touchesBegan(touches, with: event)
if let validTouch = touches.first?.location(in: self.view) {
if (self.view!.point(inside: validTouch, with: event)) {
if(!touchBeganSended) {
touchBeganSended = true
touchLocation = validTouch
anotherGestureRecognizer?.touchesBegan(touches, with: event)
state = .recognized
}
}
}
}
override func touchesEnded(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent) {
super.touchesEnded(touches, with: event)
if let validTouch = touches.first?.location(in: self.view) {
if (self.view!.point(inside: validTouch, with: event)) {
if(touchBeganSended) {
touchBeganSended = false
anotherGestureRecognizer?.touchesEnded(touches, with: event)
state = .recognized
}
}
}
}
override func location(in view: UIView?) -> CGPoint {
if let desiredView = view {
if(desiredView == self.view) {
return touchLocation ?? CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0)
} else {
return super.location(in: view)
}
} else {
return super.location(in: view)
}
}
}
Updated
then you need to modify your initialize() method to this one, with the last update you don't need to take into account which view is on top on view hierarchy
private func initialize(){
let tapGesture1 = CustomGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap1(_:)))
let tapGesture2 = CustomGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap2(_:)))
tapGesture1.cancelsTouchesInView = true
tapGesture1.delegate = self
tapGesture2.cancelsTouchesInView = true
tapGesture2.delegate = self
self.view1.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture1)
tapGesture1.anotherGestureRecognizer = tapGesture2
tapGesture2.anotherGestureRecognizer = tapGesture1
self.view2.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture2)
}
this works as you can see here

Answer 2

Try the following:
private func initialize(){
let tapGesture1 = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap1(_:)))
let tapGesture2 = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(detectTap2(_:)))
tapGesture1.cancelsTouchesInView = false
tapGesture2.cancelsTouchesInView = false
self.view1.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture1)
self.view2.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture2)
}
When you set
gesture.cancelsTouchesInView = false
it propagates the gesture to the views underneath.

Answer 3

Try to implement this UIGestureRecognizerDelegate method:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UIGestureRecognizerDelegate {
...
...
private func initialize() {
...
gesture1.delegate = self
gesture2.delegate = self
...
}
func gestureRecognizer(
_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer,
shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWith otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer
) -> Bool {
// its up to you
//guard otherGestureRecognizer == yourAnotherGesture else { return false }
return true
}