uiswipegesturerecognizer

How to enable swipe to delete cell in a TableView?

February 15, 2023 by Tarik

As Dan has commented above, you need to implement the following table view delegate methods: tableView:canEditRowAtIndexPath: tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: Note: I have tried this in iOS 6 and iOS 7. – (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { // Return YES – we will be able to delete all rows return YES; } – (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath … Read more

Setting direction for UISwipeGestureRecognizer

December 12, 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

December 2, 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