This is something that had me banging my head against the wall and thought I would share. The use case is using the left and right swipe gesture to register against the UIWebView/UIView that then calls a swipe function. For my case I was using it to change navigation on a UITableView, but you could use is for back/forward on the UIWebView itself or use the same process to register custom gestures. Of all the resources I found, they use a UIView over the UIWebView, or a disable interactivity on the UIWebView and then push touch event into it. The code is used inside a UIViewController with a UIWebVIew present.
- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeRight = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(swipeRightAction:)]; swipeRight.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionRight; swipeRight.delegate = self; [webView addGestureRecognizer:swipeRight]; UISwipeGestureRecognizer *swipeLeft = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(swipeLeftAction:)]; swipeLeft.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionLeft; swipeLeft.delegate = self; [webView addGestureRecognizer:swipeLeft]; } - (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer { return YES; } - (void)swipeRightAction:(id)ignored { NSLog(@"Swipe Right"); //add Function } - (void)swipeLeftAction:(id)ignored { NSLog(@"Swipe Left"); //add Function }
