Use Gestures: Even in Swift Playgrounds

You can use gestures for code written in Playgrounds!

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Did you know that Playgrounds has support for gestures? No? Read on and find out!

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

You might be aware that Swift’s Playgrounds are a great way to write and test code quickly and easily.

Did you also know you can use liveView and gestures to create a fully functioning app?

Let’s go!

The end product

You’ll be able to drag and drop a shape on the background. Like (you know) in a very simple App. However — this will be happening in Playgrounds.

The explanation

Setting up the Playground

PlaygroundSupport has all you need to make the most of your playground experience.

By this I mean you can add

import PlaygroundSupport

which enables a collection of great features. One of these is to (assuming we have a MyViewController() UIViewController…