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How to detect a flick gesture using UISwipeGestureRecognizer?

I heard that UISwipeGestureRecognizer can be used to distinguish between a slow swipe and a fast flick. But I can't find any API to tell the difference.

Solution

  • Do you specifically need to use UISwipeGestureRecognizer, or can you use UIPanGestureRecognizer instead? UIPanGestureRecognizer gives you precise movement data whereas UISwipeGestureRecognizer is more basic and just detects whether or not a swipe happened (and in which direction).

    UIPanGestureRecognizer has a -velocityInView: method which returns a CGPoint, expressing points per second, vertically and horizontally.