Learning Mobile App Development: A Hands-on Guide to Building Apps with iOS and Android

Long Press Gesture

In MyContactList, calling a phone number is a very useful feature. It will be implemented to allow the user to long press on the phone number on the Contact screen to call the number. A long press means that the user holds a little longer than a regular tap—about one second. To set this up, you need to add these two lines to viewDidLoad: in LMAContactsController.m:

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UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc]                                          initWithTarget:self                                                  action:@selector(callPhone:)];[_txtPhone addGestureRecognizer:longPress];

The first line sets up a gesture recognizer, which is a special object ...