Using UITextView in UITableViewController - tap outside to dismiss keyboard - ios

Question

I'm using a text view inside a table cell. Other cells are associated with segues so I need the following behaviour:
(Default) Tapping on other table rows triggers relevant segue
Tapping inside the text view begins editing and shows the keyboard
If the keyboard is visible, tapping outside the text view dismisses the keyboard but does not follow segues
Once the keyboard has been dismissed, subsequent taps on segues are followed.

Answer 1

1. Adopt the textView delegate method and
textView.delegate = self
2. Add global property
var tap = UITapGestureRecognizer()
3. Implement the textView delegate methods
func textViewDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextView) {
self.tableView.allowsSelection = false
tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.Tapped))
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
}
func textViewDidEndEditing(textField: UITextView) {
self.tableView.allowsSelection = true
self.view.removeGestureRecognizer(tap)
}
4. Implement the Tapped()
func Tapped(){
view.endEditing(true)
}
Note : This also works for UITextField, replacing View with Field throughout

Answer 2

Add the UITextViewDelegate protocol to your class and add these variables
var textViewIsEditing:Bool = false
var tap: UITapGestureRecognizer!
Override the viewdidload function so that the tableViewController listens for events from the text view.
Also add a UITapGestureRecognizer which will trigger a custom handleTap function
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
myTextView.delegate = self
tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(MyClass.handleTap))
tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
}
Add two functions to toggle textViewIsEditing based on whether the textview is being edited
func textViewDidEndEditing(textView: UITextView) {
textViewIsEditing = false
}
func textViewDidBeginEditing(textView: UITextView) {
textViewIsEditing = true
}
Now add a custom handleTap function to decide how to handle taps:
func handleTap(thisGestureRecognizer:UITapGestureRecognizer){
if(textFieldIsEditing){
// ignore this tap if editing text field but end editing
tap.cancelsTouchesInView = true
view.endEditing(true)
}else{
// proceed as normal
tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false
}
}