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

Thanks to Holly's answer I built a ButtonView convenience class.

Edit: As this answer says, UILongPressGestureRecognizer reacts quite faster so I updated my class.

Usage:

let btn = ButtonView()
btn.onNormal = { btn.backgroundColor = .clearColor() }
btn.onPressed = { btn.backgroundColor = .blueColor() }
btn.onReleased = yourAction // Function to be called

Class:

/** View that can be pressed like a button */

import UIKit

class ButtonView : UIView {

    /* Called when the view goes to normal state (set desired appearance) */
    var onNormal = {}
    /* Called when the view goes to pressed state (set desired appearance) */
    var onPressed = {}
    /* Called when the view is released (perform desired action) */
    var onReleased = {}

    override init(frame: CGRect)
    {
        super.init(frame: frame)

        let recognizer = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector("touched:"))
        recognizer.delegate = self
        recognizer.minimumPressDuration = 0.0
        addGestureRecognizer(recognizer)
        userInteractionEnabled = true

        onNormal()
    }

    func touched(sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer)
    {
        if sender.state == .Began {
            onPressed(self)
        } else if sender.state == .Ended {
            onNormal(self)
            onReleased()
        }
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}