You can easily add gesture recognition to your app either by dragging and dropping a recognizer onto your storyboard or entirely through code.

Using storyboard

Let’s say we have an image on our storyboard and we want to know when the user taps it. To accomplish this we need to add a tap gesture recognizer to our image view:

Make sure you drop it on the image itself, not on the view around it.

Almost done! Create an @IBAction for your new gesture recognizer:

Now, the last and a very important part (which I keep forgetting to do myself): enable “User Interactions Enabled” on your image:

And we’re in business!

Recognizers using only code

Storyboards are great but sometimes you can’t achieve what you want with them (or you don’t like them).

Adding a gesture recognizer from code is fairly easy. Let’s do the same thing we did in the previous section.

Here’s all the code that you need to do that is here, commented.

It works just like the previous example!