Ability to shorten UIDragInteraction's long press timing

Question

I am currently using UIDragInteraction and UIDropInteraction made available in iOS 11 to make a simple drag and drop feature, where user could drag

Answer 1

I was trying to do this from Xamarin.iOS inside an UIView implementing the IUIDragInteractionDelegate interface. In its constructor I made a SetupDragNDrop method that allows to drag the view without that default delay/latency to catch the view. I leave the code down below in case it's useful for somebody else:

    #region Private Fields
    private UIDragInteraction _UIDragInteraction;
    #endregion

    void Initialize()
    {
        SetupDragNDrop();
    }

    private void SetupDragNDrop()
    {
        UserInteractionEnabled = true;
        _UIDragInteraction = new UIDragInteraction(this);
        AddInteraction(_UIDragInteraction);

        // On iPad, this defaults to true. On iPhone, this defaults to 
        // false. Since this app should work on the iPhone, enable the the 
        // drag interaction.
        _UIDragInteraction.Enabled = true;

        SetupDragDelay();
    }

    private void SetupDragDelay()
    {

        UILongPressGestureRecognizer longPressGesture = new UILongPressGestureRecognizer();

        GestureRecognizers?.ToList().ForEach(gesture =>
        {
            var x = gesture as UILongPressGestureRecognizer;
            if (x != null)
            {
                longPressGesture = x;
            }
        });

        longPressGesture.MinimumPressDuration = 0.0;
    }

Answer 2

There's no obvious way to do this, but I was just facing the same problem and took a peek into the gesture recognizers of the view that the dragInteraction is attached to. It a _UIDragLiftGestureRecognizer which is not part of the public API, but turns out this is just a subclass of UILongPressGestureRecognizer.

So, after having added your UIDragInteraction to your view, and after having added that view to the view hierachy (since I'm using a custom UIView subclass I just added it into didMoveToSuperview()), you can do something like this:

if let longPressRecognizer = gestureRecognizers?.compactMap({ $0 as? UILongPressGestureRecognizer}).first {
    longPressRecognizer.minimumPressDuration = 0.1 // your custom value
}