About messages from UITapGestureRecognizer

Question

The following is from documentation :

Although taps are discrete gestures, they are discrete for each state of the gesture recognizer; thus the as

Answer 1

The UITapGestureRecognizer only fires when the gesture state is UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded

If you want to use a gesture recogniser to detect the start and end of a press, use the UILongPressGestureRecognizer, with the minumumPressDuration set to 0