How to detect longpress in BarButtonitem

Question

I have a UIBarButtonItem in navigation bar. When a user clicks it, it pops to another viewController. Now i want that when user long-press on that button (navigation bar button) I want to show a help message. I want help to detect the onlick event and longpress event separately.

Answer 1

so I found that UIBarButton has not property like longpress so all I do is take a UIButton give it longpress gesture and add that UIButton in navigation bar as UIBarButtonItem.

I hope it will helpful for someone else who is facing same problem.

        let btn = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 40, height: 40))
        btn.backgroundColor = .green
        
        let gesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(longpress))
        btn.addGestureRecognizer(gesture)
        
        let barbtn = UIBarButtonItem(customView: btn)
        self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = barbtn

thank you :)