How to add tap gesture to UICollectionView , while maintaining cell selection?

Question

Task

Add a single tap gesture to UICollectionView, do not get in the way of cell selection.

I want some other taps on the no-cell part of the

Answer 1

Whenever you want to add a gesture recognizer, but not steal the touches from the target view, you should set UIGestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView for your gestureRecognizer instance to false.