How to call gesture tap on UIView programmatically in swift

Question

I have a UIView and and I have added tap gesture to it:

let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector(\"handleTap:\"))
tap.delegate = self         


        

Answer 1

You need to initialize UITapGestureRecognizer with a target and action, like so:

let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleTap:")
tap.delegate = self
myView.addGestureRecognizer(tap)

Then, you should implement the handler, which will be called each time when a tap event occurs:

func handleTap(sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
  // handling code
}