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Setting direction for UISwipeGestureRecognizer

July 24, 2022 by Tarik

Seems like there is a bug. You can specify the allowed direction(s) as you did. But when you try to access the actual direction that triggered the swipe in the action selector method you still get the bit mask you originally set (for the allowed directions). This means that checks for the actual direction will … Read more

How to recognize swipe in all 4 directions

July 13, 2022 by Tarik

You need to have one UISwipeGestureRecognizer for each direction. It’s a little weird because the UISwipeGestureRecognizer.direction property is an options-style bit mask, but each recognizer can only handle one direction. You can send them all to the same handler if you want, and sort it out there, or send them to different handlers. Here’s one … Read more