Find which child view was tapped when using UITapGestureRecognizer

How do I know on which of the the child views an event occurred when using UIGestureRecognizers?

According to the documentation:

> A gesture recognizer operates on > touches hit-tested to a specific view > and all of that view’s subviews.

As far as I can see, the 'view' property is

> The view the gesture recognizer is > attached to.

which will be the parent view.

This will find the innermost descendant view at the event's location. (Note that if that child view has any interactive internal private grandchildren this code will find those too.)

UIView* view = gestureRecognizer.view;
CGPoint loc = [gestureRecognizer locationInView:view];
UIView* subview = [view hitTest:loc withEvent:nil];

In Swift 2:

let view = gestureRecognizer.view
let loc = gestureRecognizer.locationInView(view)
let subview = view?.hitTest(loc, withEvent: nil) // note: it is a `UIView?`

In Swift 3:

let view = gestureRecognizer.view
let loc = gestureRecognizer.location(in: view)
let subview = view?.hitTest(loc, with: nil) // note: it is a `UIView?`

For future users... I have got a better option now when world is not using obj-c anymore...

[sender view]

use it this way:

UITapGestureRecognizer * objTapGesture = [self createTapGestureOnView:myTextField];

[objTapGesture addTarget:self action:@selector(displayPickerView:)];

// add these methods

-(void)displayPickerView:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)sender
{
    UITextField *textField = (UITextField*)[sender view];
    NSLog(@"tag=  %ld", (long)textField.tag);
}

-(UITapGestureRecognizer*)createTapGestureOnView:(UIView *)view
{
    view.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    UITapGestureRecognizer * tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]init];
    tapGesture.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;
    tapGesture.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
    [view addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
    return tapGesture;
}