Question

Is it possible to drag UIView around the iOS screen while it has both image and text? e.g. small cards. Could you point me to the similar (solved) topic? I haven’t found any.

Answer 1

While UIView does not have a built-in support for moving itself along the user dragging, it should be not so difficult to implement it. It is even easier when you are only dealing with dragging on the view, and not other actions such as tapping, double tapping, multi-touches etc.

First thing to do is to make a custom view, say DraggableView, by subclassing UIView. Then override UIView’s touchesMoved:withEvent: method, and you can get a current dragging location there, and move the DraggableView. Look at the following example.

-(void) touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    UITouch *aTouch = [touches anyObject];
    CGPoint location = [aTouch locationInView:self.superview];
    [UIView beginAnimations:@"Dragging A DraggableView" context:nil];
    self.frame = CGRectMake(location.x, location.y, 
                            self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height);
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

And because all subviews of the DraggableView object will be moved, too. So put all your images and texts as subviews of the DraggableView object.

What I implemented here is very simple. However, if you want more complex behaviors for the dragging, (for example, the user have to tap on the view for a few seconds to move the view), then you will have to override other event handling methods (touchesBegan:withEvent: and touchesEnd:withEvent) as well.