How to make two gestures recognize at the same time using simultaneousGesture()
How to make two gestures recognize at the same time using simultaneousGesture() êŽë š
Updated for Xcode 15
By default SwiftUI will trigger only one gesture recognizer action at a time, which is usually whichever one is the front-most view in your hierarchy â it would prefer a recognizer on a child view rather than its parent, for example. If you want to override this behavior to make two gestures trigger at once, you should use the simultaneousGesture()
when creating your second and subsequent gestures.
For example, in this code we have two tap gestures, but SwiftUI will execute only the one attached to the circle because it's the child of the VStack
:
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Circle()
.fill(.red)
.frame(width: 200, height: 200)
.onTapGesture {
print("Circle tapped")
}
}
.onTapGesture {
print("VStack tapped")
}
}
}
If you want both gestures to trigger â i.e., if you want both âCircle tappedâ and âVStack tappedâ to be printed â you should use simultaneousGesture()
on the VStack
like this:
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Circle()
.fill(.red)
.frame(width: 200, height: 200)
.onTapGesture {
print("Circle tapped")
}
}
.simultaneousGesture(
TapGesture()
.onEnded { _ in
print("VStack tapped")
}
)
}
}
Note
You should use simultaneousGesture()
with the gesture that would otherwise not be executed otherwise it won't work. So, in our previous example using simultaneousGesture()
with the circle and a simple onTapGesture()
with the VStack
will still print just âCircle tappedâ â it won't do what you expect.