UITapGestureRecognizer tap on self.view but ignore subviews

Question

I need to implement a feature that will invoke some code when I double tap on the self.view (view of UIViewCotroller). But the problem that I have other UI obje

Answer 1

I had to prevent the gesture on the child view. The only thing that worked is to allow and keep the first view and prevent gesture in all the next views:

   var gestureView: UIView? = nil

    func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldReceive touch: UITouch) -> Bool {
        if (gestureView == nil || gestureView == touch.view){
            gestureView = touch.view
            return true
        }
        return false
     }