UISwipeGestureRecognizer Not Performing Method - ios

Question

I am having a difficult time getting a Swipe Gesture Recognizer to work on my app. Here is the Hierarchy of it all.
App's root view is a UINavigationController which has class ViewController as visible for the first view seen. I have a UIButton which will fire a movie that loops until I tap it twice which will have the navigation controller push a new ViewController that I have made called PUPPETS1 onto the screen. This VC has its own xib. The xib has a UIImageView. What I want to have happen is to start playing a movie once I swipe up on the screen, but that never happens, and the console never shows my NSLog from the 2nd VC's method.
- (void)loopVideo {
NSURL *videoURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:#"warpspeed" withExtension:#"mov"];
UIView *patternView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
patternView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
[self.moviePlayer2.backgroundView addSubview:patternView];
self.moviePlayer2 = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
[self.moviePlayer2 setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleDefault];
self.moviePlayer2.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
self.moviePlayer2.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
self.moviePlayer2.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
[self.moviePlayer2 setAllowsAirPlay:YES];
self.moviePlayer2.view.frame = self.view.frame;
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(puppetOne)];
tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
tapGesture.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
UIView *aView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.moviePlayer2.backgroundView.bounds];
[aView addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
[self.view.window addSubview:aView];
[self.view addSubview:self.moviePlayer2.view];
self.moviePlayer2.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeOne;
[self.moviePlayer2 play];
}
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer{
return YES;
}
In the 2nd VC, the PUPPETS1 one:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewWillAppear:YES];
UISwipeGestureRecognizer * swipeRec = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(playPuppets)];
swipeRec.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionUp;
UIView *aView2 = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
[aView2 addGestureRecognizer:swipeRec];
[self.view addSubview:aView2];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
}
-(void)playPuppets {
NSLog(#"PLAYING");
NSURL *videoURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:#"SundayPuppets" withExtension:#"m4v"];
//filePath may be from the Bundle or from the Saved file Directory, it is just the path for the video
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];
AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
playerViewController.player = player;
//[playerViewController.player play];//Used to Play On start
[self presentViewController:playerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer{
return YES;
}

Answer 1

The frame of the view to which you're attaching the gr depends on it's parent view's bounds, and those aren't initialized yet in viewDidLoad.
Move the setup to after layout is complete (and tweak it to run just once, on the first layout change), i.e.
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
UIView *swipeView = [self.view viewWithTag:999];
// only do this if we haven't done it already
if (!swipeView) {
// now that self.view.bounds is initialized...
swipeView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
swipeView.tag = 999;
// the rest of your OP setup code is fine, and goes here
UISwipeGestureRecognizer * swipeRec = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(playPuppets)];
swipeRec.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionUp;
[swipeView addGestureRecognizer:swipeRec];
[self.view addSubview:swipeView];
NSLog(#"%#", swipeView);
}
}
EDIT The code above attached the gesture recognizing view correctly, providing a fix in the second view controller. It turns out that the other problem was the previous view controller was not properly removing the (deprecated) MPMoviePlayer, resulting in touches not functioning on the pushed vc. The entire reworked ViewController.m can be found in the chat linked below, but the fix for the touches issue was here...
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
[self.moviePlayer stop];
[self.moviePlayer.view removeFromSuperview];
self.moviePlayer = nil;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}