Transfer gestures on a UIView to a UITableView in Swift - iOS - ios

I have a layout with a UIView at the top of the page and, right below it, I have a UITableView.
What I am wanting to do is to transfer the gesture interactions on the UIView to the UITableView, so when the user makes a drag up/down on the UIView, the UITableView scrolls vertically.
I tried the following code
tableView.gestureRecognizers?.forEach { uiView.addGestureRecognizer($0) }
but it removed the gestureRecognizers from the UITableView somehow :/
Obs.: the UIView cannot be a Header of the UIScrollView

That's Tricky
What is problem ?
Your top view is not allowed to pass through view behind it...
What would be possible solutions
pass all touches to view behind it (Seems to not possible or very tough practically )
Tell window to ignore touches on top view (Easy one)
Second option is better and easy.
So What you need to do is create subclass of UIView and override
override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView?
and return nil if you found same view on hitTest action
Here Tested and working example
class PassThroughME : UIView {
override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
return super.hitTest(point, with: event) == self ? nil : self
}
}
That's it now use PassThroughME either by adding class to your view in storyboard or programmatically whatever way you have added your view
Check image i have black color view with 0.7 alpha on top still i am able to scroll
Hope it is helpful

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Gif of demo
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The problem wasn't the hitTest.
My VC View had a tap gesture to close keyboards. This tap gesture was cancelling the tableview's tap gesture.
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You should check at what point touches and allow it or not.
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I am trying to build similar controller to GMSPlacePicker.
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I am able to do it If I set:
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func hitTest(point: CGPoint, withEvent event: UIEvent?) -> UIView?
ANTableView.swift
import UIKit
class ANTableView: UITableView
{
override func hitTest(point: CGPoint, withEvent event: UIEvent?) -> UIView?
{
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https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIView_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIView/pointInside:withEvent:
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