UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction not working

Question

I'm trying to detect a touch whilst my UIImageView is animating. The touch detection works before the animation starts, and once it stops, but not during.

I've tried adding UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction, but it seems to have no effect at all!

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Code:

-(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

    UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
    NSLog(@"tag=%@", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", touch]);
    if ([touch view] == itemCoke)
    {
        NSLog(@"Coke Touched");
    }

}

- (IBAction)removeItemButton:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"Pushed");


    [UIView animateWithDuration:5 
                          delay:0.0         
                        options:UIViewAnimationOptionAllowUserInteraction
                     animations:^
                             {
                                 itemCoke.transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(itemCoke.transform, (M_PI*-0.5));
                                 itemCoke.frame = CGRectMake(50, 50, 50, 50);
                             }
                     completion:^(BOOL finished){}];   
}

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

The reason the interactions are not working is that essentially the UIImageView is not where it appears to be. Only the view's CALayer's presentation layer is being animated around the screen. The view has already arrived at it's destination immediately. This makes interaction much harder. You will likely find this answer helpful.