How to pass a 'tap' to UIButton that is underneath UIView with UISwipeGestureRecognizer?

Question

I have a UIButton underneath a (transparent) UIView. The UIView above has a UISwipeGestureRecognizer added to it, and that is its only purpose - to detect certain swipe gestures

Answer 1

Have you set:

mySwipeGesture.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;

to allow the touches to be sent to the view hierarchy as well as the gesture?

Additionally, ensure that the view on top is:

theTransparentView.opaque = NO;
theTransparentView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

I've had pretty good success attaching gestures to the parent view without needing to create a transparent subview on top for the gesture. Are you sure you need to do that?