Button tap and long press gesture

Question

I'm having a little trouble with the gestures.

I'm trying to use both tap and long press on the same button, so I've used

@IBAction func xxx (sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) 

and

@IBAction func xxx (sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) 

but my button seems to react to both functions when I tap. What might be wrong?

func long(longpress: UIGestureRecognizer){     if(longpress.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended){     homeScoreBool = !homeScoreBool     }else if(longpress.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Began){         print("began")     } } 

Answer 1

Hard to say what´s not working with your code, with the only two rows that you have provided, but I would recommend you to do it in this way instead:

Create an outlet to your button instead

@IBOutlet weak var myBtn: UIButton! 

And in your viewDidLoad() add the gestures to the buttons

let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "normalTap")   let longGesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "longTap:") tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1 myBtn.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture) myBtn.addGestureRecognizer(longGesture) 

And then create the actions to handle the taps

func normalTap(){      print("Normal tap") }  func longTap(sender : UIGestureRecognizer){     print("Long tap")     if sender.state == .Ended {     print("UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded")     //Do Whatever You want on End of Gesture     }     else if sender.state == .Began {         print("UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan.")         //Do Whatever You want on Began of Gesture     } } 

Swift 3.0 version:

let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(ViewController.normalTap)) let longGesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector(("longTap:"))) tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1 myBtn.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture) myBtn.addGestureRecognizer(longGesture)  func normalTap(){      print("Normal tap") }  func longTap(sender : UIGestureRecognizer){     print("Long tap")     if sender.state == .ended {         print("UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded")         //Do Whatever You want on End of Gesture     }     else if sender.state == .began {         print("UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan.")         //Do Whatever You want on Began of Gesture     } } 

Updated syntax for Swift 5.x:

let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(normalTap)) button.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)  let longGesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(longTap)) button.addGestureRecognizer(longGesture)  @objc func normalTap(_ sender: UIGestureRecognizer){     print("Normal tap") }  @objc func longTap(_ sender: UIGestureRecognizer){     print("Long tap")     if sender.state == .ended {         print("UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded")         //Do Whatever You want on End of Gesture     }     else if sender.state == .began {         print("UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan.")         //Do Whatever You want on Began of Gesture     } }