Question

I have a tableview which has 3 cells named a,b and c. When I click on ‘a’ it opens another view, now I want to swipe left to right so that it returns back to tableview. This is what I want to implement but I am unable to.

I have used touchesMoved method, it works if I only implement it on a simple view, but this is not working with UITableView.

Answer 1

An easy way to go is to attach a UISwipeGestureRecognizer to the cell detail view, just before pushing it when a row is selected. This code would typically take place in your custom UITableViewController subclass.

// ...
    if(!myRecognizer) {
        myRecognizer = [[UISwipeGestureRecognizer alloc]
                        initWithTarget:self
                                action:@selector(popDetailView)];
        myRecognizer.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirectionRight;
    }
    if(!detailView) { ... }
    [detailView.view addGestureRecognizer:myRecongizer];
    ...
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:detailView animated:YES];
    [detailView release];
}

-(void)popDetailView {
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; // or NO

}