UIView touch event in controller

Question

How can I add UIView touchbegin action or touchend action programmatically as Xcode is not providing from Main.storyboard?

Answer 1

For swift 4

@IBOutlet weak var someView: UIView!  
let gesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:  #selector (self.someAction (_:)))
self.someView.addGestureRecognizer(gesture)

@objc func someAction(_ sender:UITapGestureRecognizer){
    print("view was clicked")
}

Answer 2

Just an update to above answers :

If you want to have see changes in the click event, i.e. Color of your UIVIew shud change whenever user clicks the UIView then make changes as below...

class ClickableUIView: UIView {
    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
            if let touch = touches.first {
                let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
                // do something with your currentPoint
            }

            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.magentaColor()//Color when UIView is clicked.
        }

        override func touchesMoved(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
            if let touch = touches.first {
                let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
                // do something with your currentPoint
            }

            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.magentaColor()//Color when UIView is clicked.
        }

        override func touchesEnded(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
            if let touch = touches.first {
                let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
                // do something with your currentPoint
            }

            self.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()//Color when UIView is not clicked.

}//class closes here

Also, call this Class from Storyboard & ViewController as:

@IBOutlet weak var panVerificationUIView:ClickableUIView!

Answer 3

Updating @Chackle's answer for Swift 2.x:

override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

override func touchesMoved(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

override func touchesEnded(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.locationInView(self)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

Answer 4

Updating @stevo.mit's answer for Swift 4.x:

override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.location(in: self.view)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

override func touchesMoved(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.location(in: self.view)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

override func touchesEnded(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        let currentPoint = touch.location(in: self.view)
        // do something with your currentPoint
    }
}

Answer 5

You will have to add it through code. Try this:

    // 1.create UIView programmetically
    var myView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 100))
    // 2.add myView to UIView hierarchy
    self.view.addSubview(myView) 
    // 3. add action to myView
    let gesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "someAction:")
    // or for swift 2 +
    let gestureSwift2AndHigher = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:  #selector (self.someAction (_:)))
    self.myView.addGestureRecognizer(gesture)

    func someAction(sender:UITapGestureRecognizer){     
       // do other task
    }

    // or for Swift 3
    func someAction(_ sender:UITapGestureRecognizer){     
       // do other task
    }

    // or for Swift 4
    @objc func someAction(_ sender:UITapGestureRecognizer){     
       // do other task
    }

Answer 6

Swift 4.2:

@IBOutlet weak var viewLabel1: UIView!
@IBOutlet weak var viewLabel2: UIView!
  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let myView = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(someAction(_:)))
    self.viewLabel1.addGestureRecognizer(myView)
}

 @objc func someAction(_ sender:UITapGestureRecognizer){
   viewLabel2.isHidden = true
 }