Tap Gesture on animating UIView not working

Question

I have a tap gesture on a UILabel who\'s translation is being animated. Whenever you tap on the label during the animation there\'s no response from the tap gesture.

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Answer 1

I was stuck on this problem for hours, and could not understand why the tapping did not work on an animated label which slides out of screen after 3 seconds delay.

Well said agibson007, about the animation works like a fake movie's playback, the 3-second delay controls the payback of the movie, yet the label's frame is changed as soon as the animation begins without a delay. So the tapping (which depends on the label's frame at its original position) would not work.

My solution was changing the 3-second delay to a timeout function like -

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + delay) {
   [weak self] in
   self?.hideLabel()           
}

So that keeps the tapping works during the delay, and allow animation runs inside the hideLabel() call after the delay.