Proper way to implement a custom UIViewController interactive transition using UIViewControllerInteractiveTransitioning Delegate Protocol

1) The easiest way to tie a gesture to the UIViewControllerInteractiveTransitioning object, is making it subclass of UIPercentDrivenInteractiveTransition. Then where you implement the gesture handler, you call updateInteractiveTransition: here an example with code:

-(void)handlePinch:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)pinch {

    CGFloat scale = pinch.scale;
    switch (pinch.state) {
      case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan: {
          _startScale = scale;
          self.interactive = YES;
          [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
          break;
      }
      case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged: {
          CGFloat percent = (1.0 - scale/_startScale);
          [self updateInteractiveTransition:(percent < 0.0) ? 0.0 : percent];
          break;
      }
      case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded: {
          CGFloat percent = (1.0 - scale/_startScale);
          BOOL cancelled = ([pinch velocity] < 5.0 && percent <= 0.3);
          if (cancelled) [self cancelInteractiveTransition];
          else [self finishInteractiveTransition];
          break;
      }
      case UIGestureRecognizerStateCancelled: {
          CGFloat percent = (1.0 - scale/_startScale);
          BOOL cancelled = ([pinch velocity] < 5.0 && percent <= 0.3);
          if (cancelled) [self cancelInteractiveTransition];
          else [self finishInteractiveTransition];
          break;
      }
    }
}

This code is from https://www.captechconsulting.com/blogs/ios-7-tutorial-series-custom-navigation-transitions–more

2) The function animateTransition of UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning is used to perform the interactive transition. It is automatically partitioned in “keyframes” thanks to your previous call to updateInteractiveTransition. But I suppose that if you implement your startInteractiveTransition: method of UIViewControllerInteractiveTransitioning (so without using UIPercentDrivenInteractiveTransition subclass) then you are responsible to manage the fully transition (not sure about that.. sorry but the documentation in my opinion is not really clear).