Dragging UIView under finger [duplicate]

Answer 1

I think you are talking about the stalker app...

// Tell the "stalker" rectangle to move to each touch-down
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    [UIView beginAnimations:@"stalk" context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:1];
    //[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
    [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];

    // touches is an NSSet.  Take any single UITouch from the set
    UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];

    // Move the rectangle to the location of the touch
    stalker.center = [touch locationInView:self];
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

Answer 2

The following code is an example of a simple gesture recognizer that will allow panel / view movement. Instead of modifying the center, you're modifying the origin point [basically by setting a new frame for the target view].

You can optimize this in your situation so you're not having to drill down into the gesture.view... etc

-(void)dragging:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)gesture
{
    if(gesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan)
    {
        //NSLog(@"Received a pan gesture");
        self.panCoord = [gesture locationInView:gesture.view];


    }
    CGPoint newCoord = [gesture locationInView:gesture.view];
    float dX = newCoord.x-panCoord.x;
    float dY = newCoord.y-panCoord.y;

gesture.view.frame = CGRectMake(gesture.view.frame.origin.x+dX, gesture.view.frame.origin.y+dY, gesture.view.frame.size.width, gesture.view.frame.size.height);
 }

Swift 4:

@objc func handleTap(_ sender: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
        if(sender.state == .began) {
            self.panCoord = sender.location(in: sender.view)
        }

        let newCoord: CGPoint = sender.location(in: sender.view)

        let dX = newCoord.x - panCoord.x
        let dY = newCoord.y - panCoord.y

        sender.view?.frame = CGRect(x: (sender.view?.frame.origin.x)!+dX, y: (sender.view?.frame.origin.y)!+dY, width: (sender.view?.frame.size.width)!, height: (sender.view?.frame.size.height)!)
    }

Answer 3

You can save both the point where you touched (T) and the current position of the view (O). In touchMoved, you can move it based on the new point by adding (O-T).

Answer 4

Here is the code from Apple's MoveMe project the key is to do this in the touchesMoved method. It allows the UIView(PlacardView) to see the touch and move wherever the user's touch goes. Hope this helps.

- (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];

// If the touch was in the placardView, move the placardView to its location
if ([touch view] == placardView) {
    CGPoint location = [touch locationInView:self];
    placardView.center = location;
    return;
   }
}