hitTest to dismiss keyboard causing weird behaviour

Question

I've googled on how to dismiss keyboard when touching a blank area in UITableView in iOS, and there're several ways to solve this. Like using delegate, UITapGestureRecognizer, - (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event and - (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event.

I decide to take hitTest by subclassing the corresponding UIView class and override this method like this:

    - (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView *result = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];
    [self endEditing:YES];

    return result;
}

This really works, will dismiss the virtual keyboard when I touch / scroll / swipe / pinch ... somewhere else, but another problem shows up.

The keyboard is active or shown when I touch one UITextField object, then I touch the same UITextField object, here is the problem, the keyboard try to dismiss but not completely, in the middle of somewhere it begin to show up, doing this kind of weird animation. Most of the case in our APPs, the keyboard should stay still when we touch the same UITextField object. Is there a nice and simple way to solve this problem?

Solved: Finally, I figure it out myself. Thanks to @Wain, thanks to @Wain's hint. I do check the result before I invoke [self endEditing:YES];. Here is the modified code:

    - (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UIView *result = [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];
    // You can change the following condition to meet your own needs
    if (![result isMemberOfClass:[UITextField class]] && ![result isMemberOfClass:[UITextView class]]) {
        [self endEditing:YES];
    }
    return result;
}

Answer 1

Check the class of the result so that you can limit when you end editing. If the hit target was an editable class (like a text field, or a switch) then don't end the editing session.