Haptics in UIKit: A Simple Guide

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Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 15.0, and Swift 5.9

The background to this is that some time ago I needed to implement Haptics. Looking at the files, this was in 2021. It’s probably time I shared my simple guide how to use UINotificationFeedbackGenerator and UISelectionFeedbackGenerator.

Using Haptics

Sure, you can use the documentation but I like to have a simple project to see how this could be used. Basically I just wanted a view that would cycle through a load of haptics feedback.

The Code

This is the code for haptics. Nothing too special here, although the implementation is in code only. I’ve used a switch statement so there is only a single haptic at any one time. On with the code!

import UIKit

final class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var i = 0
    
    override func loadView() {
        let view = UIView()
        view.backgroundColor = .red
        self.view = view
    }
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        let button = UIButton()
        button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        view.addSubview(button)…