--- title: "Applying complex gestures to a SwiftUI view" url: https://daily.dev/posts/applying-complex-gestures-to-a-swiftui-view-cw3sdeb7s source_url: https://danielsaidi.com/blog/2022/11/24/applying-complex-gestures-to-a-swiftui-view type: article source: "Daniel Saidi" published: 2026-07-05T07:13:56.717Z updated: 2026-07-05T07:18:01.276Z tags: ["ios", "swift", "swiftui"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Applying complex gestures to a SwiftUI view **[Daniel Saidi](https://daily.dev/sources/danielsaidi)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to building a SwiftUI GestureButton that handles multiple complex gestures (press, release inside/outside, long press, hold/repeat, double tap, drag start/change/end) using a single DragGesture. The approach uses a GeometryReader as an overlay to avoid layout issues, date-based timing for long press and double tap detection, and a RepeatGestureTimer for hold-press repeating actions. The resulting component is added to the open-source SwiftUIKit library. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Attempting BookMyShow’s Rating Animation](https://daily.dev/posts/attempting-bookmyshow-s-rating-animation-3fpkfvalh) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SwiftUI: LongPressGesture OnChange Not triggered\! Updating Not triggered\!](https://daily.dev/posts/swiftui-longpressgesture-onchange-not-triggered-updating-not-triggered--zsgwwvasx) · gitconnected · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#swift](https://daily.dev/tags/swift), [#swiftui](https://daily.dev/tags/swiftui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/applying-complex-gestures-to-a-swiftui-view-cw3sdeb7s)