iOS Detect tap down and touch up of a UIView

Question

I am stuck with a problem of determining how to detect a UIView being touched down and UIView being tapped. When it is touched down, I want the UIView to change its backgrou

Answer 1

In every UIControl subclass (UIButton, etc) you can use this to subscribe to a specific set of UIControlEvent:

addTarget:action:forControlEvents

You should add target with appropriate selector for UIControlEventTouchDown and another target/selector for UIControlEventTouchUpInside event.

UIControl reference