Perhaps, using UILongPressGestureRecognizer is the most widespread solution. But I encounter with it two annoying troubles:
- sometimes this recognizer works in incorrect way when we're moving our touch;
- recognizer intercepts other touch actions so we can't use highlight callbacks of our UICollectionView in a proper way.
Let me suggest one a little bit bruteforce, but working as it's required suggestion:
Declaring a callback description for long click on our cell:
typealias OnLongClickListener = (view: OurCellView) -> Void
Extending UICollectionViewCell with variables (we can name it OurCellView, for example):
/// To catch long click events.
private var longClickListener: OnLongClickListener?
/// To check if we are holding button pressed long enough.
var longClickTimer: NSTimer?
/// Time duration to trigger long click listener.
private let longClickTriggerDuration = 0.5
Adding two methods in our cell class:
/**
Sets optional callback to notify about long click.
- Parameter listener: A callback itself.
*/
func setOnLongClickListener(listener: OnLongClickListener) {
self.longClickListener = listener
}
/**
Getting here when long click timer finishs normally.
*/
@objc func longClickPerformed() {
self.longClickListener?(view: self)
}
And overriding touch events here:
/// Intercepts touch began action.
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
longClickTimer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(self.longClickTriggerDuration, target: self, selector: #selector(longClickPerformed), userInfo: nil, repeats: false)
super.touchesBegan(touches, withEvent: event)
}
/// Intercepts touch ended action.
override func touchesEnded(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
longClickTimer?.invalidate()
super.touchesEnded(touches, withEvent: event)
}
/// Intercepts touch moved action.
override func touchesMoved(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
longClickTimer?.invalidate()
super.touchesMoved(touches, withEvent: event)
}
/// Intercepts touch cancelled action.
override func touchesCancelled(touches: Set<UITouch>?, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
longClickTimer?.invalidate()
super.touchesCancelled(touches, withEvent: event)
}
Then somewhere in controller of our collection view declaring callback listener:
let longClickListener: OnLongClickListener = {view in
print("Long click was performed!")
}
And finally in cellForItemAtIndexPath setting callback for our cells:
/// Data population.
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath)
let castedCell = cell as? OurCellView
castedCell?.setOnLongClickListener(longClickListener)
return cell
}
Now we can intercept long click actions on our cells.