Tap Recognition for UIImageView in the UITableViewCell

cocoa-touch, ios, objective-c, uigesturerecognizer, uitableview

Solution

This is actually easier than you would think. You just need to make sure that you enable user interaction on the imageView, and you can add a tap gesture to it. This should be done when the cell is instantiated to avoid having multiple tap gestures added to the same image view. For example:

- (instancetype)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder
{
    if (self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder]) {
        UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(myTapMethod:)];

        [self.imageView addGestureRecognizer:tap];
        [self.imageView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
    }

    return self;
}

- (void)myTapMethod:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapGesture
{
    UIImageView *imageView = (UIImageView *)tapGesture.view;
    NSLog(@"%@", imageView);
}

Problem

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