Swift - How to add tap gesture to array of UIViews? - ios

Question

Looking to add a tap gesture to an array of UIViews - without success. Tap seems not to be recognised at this stage.
In the code (extract) below:
Have a series of PlayingCardViews (each a UIView) showing on the main view.
Brought together as an array: cardView.
Need to be able to tap each PlayingCardView independently (and then to be able to identify which one was tapped).
#IBOutlet private var cardView: [PlayingCardView]!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(tapCard(sender: )))
for index in cardView.indices {
cardView[index].isUserInteractionEnabled = true
cardView[index].addGestureRecognizer(tap)
cardView[index].tag = index
}
}
#objc func tapCard (sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
if sender.state == .ended {
let cardNumber = sender.view.tag
print("View tapped !")
}
}

Answer 1

You need
#objc func tapCard (sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
let clickedView = cardView[sender.view!.tag]
print("View tapped !" , clickedView )
}
No need to check state here as the method with this gesture type is called only once , also every view should have a separate tap so create it inside the for - loop
for index in cardView.indices {
let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(tapCard(sender: )))

Answer 2

I will not recommend the selected answer. Because creating an array of tapGesture doesn't make sense to me in the loop. Better to add gesture within PlaycardView.
Instead, such layout should be designed using UICollectionView. If in case you need to custom layout and you wanted to use scrollView or even UIView, then the better approach is to create single Gesture Recognizer and add to the superview.
Using tap gesture, you can get the location of tap and then you can get the selectedView using that location.
Please refer to below example:
import UIKit
class PlayCardView: UIView {
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}
required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder: aDecoder)
backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}
}
class SingleTapGestureForMultiView: UIViewController {
var viewArray: [UIView]!
var scrollView: UIScrollView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
scrollView = UIScrollView(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
view.addSubview(scrollView)
let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self,
action: #selector(tapGetsure(_:)))
scrollView.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
addSubviews()
}
func addSubviews() {
var subView: PlayCardView
let width = UIScreen.main.bounds.width;
let height = UIScreen.main.bounds.height;
let spacing: CGFloat = 8.0
let noOfViewsInARow = 3
let viewWidth = (width - (CGFloat(noOfViewsInARow+1) * spacing))/CGFloat(noOfViewsInARow)
let viewHeight = (height - (CGFloat(noOfViewsInARow+1) * spacing))/CGFloat(noOfViewsInARow)
var yCordinate = spacing
var xCordinate = spacing
for index in 0..<20 {
subView = PlayCardView(frame: CGRect(x: xCordinate, y: yCordinate, width: viewWidth, height: viewHeight))
subView.tag = index
xCordinate += viewWidth + spacing
if xCordinate > width {
xCordinate = spacing
yCordinate += viewHeight + spacing
}
scrollView.addSubview(subView)
}
scrollView.contentSize = CGSize(width: width, height: yCordinate)
}
#objc
func tapGetsure(_ gesture: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
let location = gesture.location(in: scrollView)
print("location = \(location)")
var locationInView = CGPoint.zero
let subViews = scrollView.subviews
for subView in subViews {
//check if it subclass of PlayCardView
locationInView = subView.convert(location, from: scrollView)
if subView.isKind(of: PlayCardView.self) {
if subView.point(inside: locationInView, with: nil) {
// this view contains that point
print("Subview at \(subView.tag) tapped");
break;
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 3

You can try to pass the view controller as parameter to the views so they can call a function on parent view controller from the view. To reduce memory you can use protocols. e.x
protocol testViewControllerDelegate: class {
func viewTapped(view: UIView)
}
class testClass: testViewControllerDelegate {
#IBOutlet private var cardView: [PlayingCardView]!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
for cardView in self.cardView {
cardView.fatherVC = self
}
}
func viewTapped(view: UIView) {
// the view that tapped is passed ass parameter
}
}
class PlayingCardView: UIView {
weak var fatherVC: testViewControllerDelegate?
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
let gr = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.viewDidTap))
self.addGestureRecognizer(gr)
}
#objc func viewDidTap() {
fatherVC?.viewTapped(view: self)
}
}