UIScrollView is eating up my swipe gestures Swift - swift

Question

I have the below code that sets up a vertical scrollview My question is that the views within the view controllers do not respond accurately to swipe gestures. For example in this scrollview, bottomVc contains swipe gestures for left and right swipes. When this view controller is isolated in another project it works flawlessly, but the swipe gestures don't work when it is within the scrollview below. I was wondering how I could fix this issue so that my viewconttollers can handle swipe gestures while being in the scrollview. Also FYI, the code that controls the other view controllers are in separate files along with the swipe gestures.
The code:
import UIKit
class VerticalScrollViewController: UIViewController, SnapContainerViewControllerDelegate {
var topVc: UIViewController!
var middleVc: UIViewController!
var bottomVc: UIViewController!
var scrollView: UIScrollView!
class func verticalScrollVcWith(middleVc: UIViewController,
topVc: UIViewController?=nil,
bottomVc: UIViewController?=nil) -> VerticalScrollViewController {
let middleScrollVc = VerticalScrollViewController()
middleScrollVc.topVc = topVc
middleScrollVc.middleVc = middleVc
middleScrollVc.bottomVc = bottomVc
return middleScrollVc
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view:
setupScrollView()
}
func setupScrollView() {
scrollView = UIScrollView()
scrollView.isPagingEnabled = true
scrollView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
scrollView.bounces = false
let view = (
x: self.view.bounds.origin.x,
y: self.view.bounds.origin.y,
width: self.view.bounds.width,
height: self.view.bounds.height
)
scrollView.frame = CGRect(x: view.x, y: view.y, width: view.width, height: view.height)
self.view.addSubview(scrollView)
let scrollWidth: CGFloat = view.width
var scrollHeight: CGFloat
if topVc != nil && bottomVc != nil {
scrollHeight = 3 * view.height
middleVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.width, height: view.height)
topVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: view.height, width: view.width, height: view.height)
bottomVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 2 * view.height, width: view.width, height: view.height)
addChildViewController(topVc)
addChildViewController(middleVc)
addChildViewController(bottomVc)
scrollView.addSubview(topVc.view)
scrollView.addSubview(middleVc.view)
scrollView.addSubview(bottomVc.view)
topVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
middleVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
bottomVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
//scrollView.contentOffset.y = middleVc.view.frame.origin.y
scrollView.contentOffset.y = topVc.view.frame.origin.y
} else if topVc == nil {
scrollHeight = 2 * view.height
middleVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.width, height: view.height)
bottomVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: view.height, width: view.width, height: view.height)
addChildViewController(middleVc)
addChildViewController(bottomVc)
scrollView.addSubview(middleVc.view)
scrollView.addSubview(bottomVc.view)
middleVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
bottomVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
scrollView.contentOffset.y = 0
} else if bottomVc == nil {
scrollHeight = 2 * view.height
topVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.width, height: view.height)
middleVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: view.height, width: view.width, height: view.height)
addChildViewController(topVc)
addChildViewController(middleVc)
scrollView.addSubview(topVc.view)
scrollView.addSubview(middleVc.view)
topVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
middleVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
scrollView.contentOffset.y = middleVc.view.frame.origin.y
} else {
scrollHeight = view.height
middleVc.view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.width, height: view.height)
addChildViewController(middleVc)
scrollView.addSubview(middleVc.view)
middleVc.didMove(toParentViewController: self)
}
scrollView.contentSize = CGSize(width: scrollWidth, height: scrollHeight)
scrollView.delaysContentTouches = false
}
func outerScrollViewShouldScroll() -> Bool {
if scrollView.contentOffset.y < middleVc.view.frame.origin.y || scrollView.contentOffset.y > middleVc.view.frame.origin.y {
return false
} else {
return true
}
}
}

Answer 1

Try adding the UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocol to your class, then adding this method to return true :
func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWith otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
return true
}
Should work, unless your controller setup is somehow preventing proper touch recognition..