touchesEnded not getting called when combined with UIButton?

Question

I've implemented that when the my UIButton is highlighted and my UISwipeGestureRecognizer recognizes the gesture it will begin an animation. The problem is I want to end the animation when touchesEnded gets called after selecting the UIButton and making a gesture. But touchesEnded never gets called if I tap a UIButton in the process.

The rest of the time it works, but its useless to me if I can't use it during my animation. Here is what I did:

-(IBAction) swipeDown:(UISwipeGestureRecognizer *)recognizer
{
     if(onebutton.highlighted)
     {
          //Animate
     }
}

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event 
{ 
    for(UITouch *touch in touches)
    { 
        if(touch.phase == UITouchPhaseEnded)
        { 
            NSLog(@"touched");
        } 
    } 
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Instead of touchesEnded, you could add another action for your button that is triggered when it is released.

[button addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonTapEnded) forControlEvents:(UIControlEventTouchUpInside|UIControlEventTouchUpOutside)];