Hooking up UIButton to closure? (Swift, target-action)

Question

I want to hook up a UIButton to a piece of code – from what I have found, the preferred method to do this in Swift is still to use the addTarget(target: AnyObject?, ac

Answer 1

This is easily solved using RxSwift

import RxSwift
import RxCocoa

...

@IBOutlet weak var button:UIButton!

...

let taps = button.rx.tap.asDriver() 

taps.drive(onNext: {
    // handle tap
})

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Edit:

I wanted to acknowledge that RxSwift/RxCocoa is a pretty heavy-weight dependency to add to a project just to solve this one requirement. There may be lighter-weight solutions available or just stick with target/action pattern.

In any case, if the idea of a general purpose declarative approach to handling application and user events appeals to you, definitely give RxSwift a look. It's the bomb.