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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Creating a Data Model Finishing Up Our Model

Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points
Posted by Blair Rorani
Blair Rorani
6,658 Points

How can I get a new 'fun fact' when I swipe?

I built fun facts to work using the button to trigger a new fact as shown in the course.

How can I change the fun fact by swiping (more like a side scroll) vs. using the button?

Thanks in advance.

Michael McKenna
Michael McKenna
3,451 Points
Michael McKenna
Michael McKenna
3,451 Points

You are better off going to stackoverflow.com for questions like this.

And unfortunately I do not have an answer to your problem, but there are a lot of smart people on stackoverflow that will be more than willing to help you!

1 Answer

Dimitris Sotiris Tsolis
Dimitris Sotiris Tsolis
28,141 Points
Dimitris Sotiris Tsolis
Dimitris Sotiris Tsolis
28,141 Points

A simple way to implement this functionality is to add gesture recognizer to the view controller's view. First, create a new method to handle the swipe event.

func swipeRecognizer(recognizer: UISwipeGestureRecognizer) {
    self.showFunFact()
}

Then, in the viewDidLoad method, after "super.viewDidLoad()" you have to instantiate a new swipe recognizer, define it's direction and finally add it to the view.

let swipeLeft = UISwipeGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "swipeRecognizer:")
swipeLeft.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Left
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(swipeLeft)
shaunbaker04
shaunbaker04
1,719 Points

Man that's cool to know! I am learning and went ahead and implemented your code for the swipe life gesture and it works flawless. Nice tidbit of code that allowed me to practice a new function. It is cool to see the possibilities of what we can do with this iOS devices....