How can I detect a double tap on a certain cell in UITableView?

Question

How can I detect a double tap on a certain cell in UITableView?

i.e. I want to perform one action if the user made a single touch and another if a user made a double touch? I also need to know an index path where the touch was made.

How can I achieve this goal?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Override in your UITableView class this method

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event  {       if(((UITouch *)[touches anyObject]).tapCount == 2)     {     NSLog(@"DOUBLE TOUCH");     }     [super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event]; } 

Answer 2

If you do not want to create a subclass of UITableView, use a timer with the table view's didSelectRowAtIndex:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {     //checking for double taps here     if(tapCount == 1 && tapTimer != nil && tappedRow == indexPath.row){         //double tap - Put your double tap code here         [tapTimer invalidate];         [self setTapTimer:nil];          UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Double Tap" message:@"You double-tapped the row" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];         [alert show];         [alert release];     }     else if(tapCount == 0){         //This is the first tap. If there is no tap till tapTimer is fired, it is a single tap         tapCount = tapCount + 1;         tappedRow = indexPath.row;         [self setTapTimer:[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.2 target:self selector:@selector(tapTimerFired:) userInfo:nil repeats:NO]];     }     else if(tappedRow != indexPath.row){         //tap on new row         tapCount = 0;         if(tapTimer != nil){             [tapTimer invalidate];             [self setTapTimer:nil];         }     } }  - (void)tapTimerFired:(NSTimer *)aTimer{     //timer fired, there was a single tap on indexPath.row = tappedRow     if(tapTimer != nil){         tapCount = 0;         tappedRow = -1;     } } 

HTH