Swipe to go back only works on edge of screen? - ios

Question

My swipe to go back feature works but only works on the edge of the screen. How can I have it work from anywhere on the screen?

Answer 1

It's actually quite easy to do on the UINavigationController subclass without any intervention into every UIViewController subclass pushed. Also respecting built-in swipe-from-edge state (so when it's disabled intentionally, the new gesture is disabled as well):
import UIKit
class NavigationController: UINavigationController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setupFullWidthBackGesture()
}
private lazy var fullWidthBackGestureRecognizer = UIPanGestureRecognizer()
private func setupFullWidthBackGesture() {
// The trick here is to wire up our full-width `fullWidthBackGestureRecognizer` to execute the same handler as
// the system `interactivePopGestureRecognizer`. That's done by assigning the same "targets" (effectively
// object and selector) of the system one to our gesture recognizer.
guard
let interactivePopGestureRecognizer = interactivePopGestureRecognizer,
let targets = interactivePopGestureRecognizer.value(forKey: "targets")
else {
return
}
fullWidthBackGestureRecognizer.setValue(targets, forKey: "targets")
fullWidthBackGestureRecognizer.delegate = self
view.addGestureRecognizer(fullWidthBackGestureRecognizer)
}
}
extension NavigationController: UIGestureRecognizerDelegate {
func gestureRecognizerShouldBegin(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
let isSystemSwipeToBackEnabled = interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled == true
let isThereStackedViewControllers = viewControllers.count > 1
return isSystemSwipeToBackEnabled && isThereStackedViewControllers
}
}

Answer 2

Apple says here :
interactivePopGestureRecognizer
The gesture recognizer responsible for popping the top view controller
off the navigation stack. (read-only)
#property(nonatomic, readonly) UIGestureRecognizer
*interactivePopGestureRecognizer
The navigation controller installs this gesture recognizer on its view
and uses it to pop the topmost view controller off the navigation
stack. You can use this property to retrieve the gesture recognizer
and tie it to the behavior of other gesture recognizers in your user
interface. When tying your gesture recognizers together, make sure
they recognize their gestures simultaneously to ensure that your
gesture recognizers are given a chance to handle the event.
So SloppySwiper library customise the UIPanGestureRecognizer.
Check out the library SloppySwiper, which achieves this by using UIPanGestureRecognizer and by recreating the default animation.
SloppySwiper:- UINavigationController delegate that allows swipe back gesture to be started from anywhere on the screen like instagram.
Usage of this library can be found here.
Cocoapods:- pod "SloppySwiper"
I test this library on ios7 and above. It works like a charm.

Answer 3

Swipe to go back is default behavior of pushed/showed view controllers. It works from left edge of the screen (by default). If you want to swipe back from any part of the screen, you should add UISwipeGestureRecognizer to your view:
let swipeGestureRecognizer = UISwipeGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "didSwipe:")
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(swipeGestureRecognizer)