I want to develop an ipad app for babies, i have noticed that when a baby uses an ipad, she will use many fingers, making the gestures for the ipad activate, like switch activities, check springboard, or close activity, or notifications
How can i disable this gestures in my app? (then i will implement my own gestures)
So is possible to disable the default gestures?
Thanks!
Disabling the default gestures is not possible, you can only disable them from settings but still you can make up your own gestures
But keep in mind that system global gestures will have higher priority on your own gestures
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I am building an app which will be displayed on an iPad. It will be an app for customers in the shop who will be able to leave their contact data. I am going to put an iPad to a frame so they won't be able to press home, lock buttons. Just the screen.
My question is: is there any way to prevent them from closing my app by a gesture? (fingers going closer to each other) or a gesture of switching apps? (3 fingers swipe left/right)
I suppose I can set it in settings, but I really need it to be set in the code.
Does iOS system provides that feature (disabling system gestures programically?)
Thank you
We have a palm scanning app and occasionally putting the palm on the app gets read as a 5 finger pinch or opposite of pinch gesture, which exits the app. Is there some way we can make it work?
I had completely missed the multitasking gestures setting which solves this in our case.
I have to detect functional HOME buttons and LOCK screen buttons which I have been able to do
But the issue is user can emulate these buttons' behaviour if assistive touch is on. So is there a way in IOS to detect if user has Assistive Touch turned on so that app can ask them to turn it off before moving on.
Apple hasn't provided any official APIs for that either accessing the existing Assistive Touch feature.
Is there a way to suppress gesture recognition? What inspires me to ask this question is watching my grand-daughter, who is a toddler, using an iPad. Quite often, she will accidentally invoke a gesture recognizer that switches apps. An example of this would be the four finger gesture where you can slide an app out of the way.
For a "child proof" app, is it possible to suppress these? Failing that, is it possible to suppress switching to another app? At first thought, that seems out of scope of an app, but maybe there is a way to do it.
You don't need to do it in your app, because it is an accessibility feature of iOS 6. It is called "Guided Access" and you can enable it in Settings -> General -> Accessibility in the Learning section.
I had the same requirement, but you cannot override the gesture recognition. It takes priority over your app.
Actually I wanted to do an app for my baby and had the same requirement!, but you cannot disable the gesture recognition on a non jail broken device ;(
No, but you can turn off it in settings manually. Go to settings> general> Multitasking gestures. I dont think we can control this via coding for normal apps, but you can inform the user to disable it here through an alert before using the app. That is the most appropriate way available now.
I am developing a game where the user could draw using up to 5 fingers, 1 finger for each line.
When multitask gesture is enabled and the user try to draw using more than 4 fingers from right to left, the gesture recognizer from iOS on iPad switch to another application.
How can I programmatically disable this recognizer when the user enters on my application?
There is no API for that.
There might be a way to consume the gesture, so it is not forwarded to the system, but I think the order of the messaging chain is in the other way.
You can only ask your users to disable the Multitasking Gestures in the System Preferences, under the General section. Not really great, I know.