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Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming
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Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

by Maurice Sharp, Erica Sadun, Rod Strougo
November 2013
Beginner
592 pages
17h 49m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Gesture Recognizer Basics

From tapping buttons to moving a slider, many built-in interface elements implement their own gestures. But sometimes you need to do something different: swipe through cars, give a quick gesture to reset state, or move a view to a new destination. All these gestures are easy to implement using UIGestureRecognizer and related classes.

UIGestureRecognizer is an abstract superclass and encapsulates the properties and behaviors that are common to any recognizer: what view the recognizer is attached to, whether it is enabled, where the touch is happening, how many fingers are on the screen, and so on. Built-in recognizers as well as your own custom ones are all based on the abstract one.

Recognizers have a few common attributes. ...

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