How to detect a swipe-to-delete gesture in a customized UITableviewCell?

Question

I have customized a UITableViewCell and I want to implement \"swipe to delete\". But I don\'t want the default delete button. Instead, I want to do something different. What

Answer 1

Here are two methods that can be used to avoid the Delete Button:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willBeginEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

and

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

Answer 2

If you want to do something completely different, add a UISwipeGestureRecognizer to each tableview cell.

// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }

    // Configure the cell.


    UISwipeGestureRecognizer* sgr = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(cellSwiped:)];
    [sgr setDirection:UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionRight];
    [cell addGestureRecognizer:sgr];
    [sgr release];

    cell.textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Cell %d", indexPath.row];
    // ...
    return cell;
}

- (void)cellSwiped:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer {
    if (gestureRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
        UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)gestureRecognizer.view;
        NSIndexPath* indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
        //..
    }
}