How to “transfer” first responder from one UIView to another?

Question

I have a UIView subclass (CustomView for purposes of this question) that has its own handling of all touches events (Began, Moved, Ended, Cancelled

Answer 1

you have to override canBecomeFirstResponder to return YES otherwise becomeFirstResponder does nothing. This is already done on UIControls, but not on UIViews

Answer 2

Just use hitTest:withEvent: to figure out what view "should" be receiving the event, then forward on the event to the appropriate view. You might have to do a little bit of dancing around to intercept events before they go to the button, but this is what hitTest:withEvent: was made for.