Tap left-right on Apple TV remote

You can use a UITapGestureRecognizer and set the allowed press types to .LeftArrow. Here's the App Programming Guide section on detecting gestures and button presses.

UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleTap:)];
[tapGestureRecognizer setAllowedPressTypes:@[@(UIPressTypeLeftArrow)]];

When you do this, suppose you want one function from which you will handle all taps, like this:

buttonPressedGestureRecognizer.allowedPressTypes = @[[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeSelect],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeMenu],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypePlayPause],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeUpArrow],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeDownArrow],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeRightArrow],

[NSNumber numberWithInteger:UIPressTypeLeftArrow],

];

Then in the target function, how do you determine from the gestureRecognizer argument which button was pressed?

Or is it not possible from a gesture recognizer target, in which case I'd need to use pressesBegan, pressesEnded, etc?

Does the gesture recognizer have to be a UITapGestureRecognizer? I just tried setting allowedPressTypes to observe the Play/Pause button on my UIGestureRecognizer subclass and pressesBegan(_: withEvent:), pressesEnded(), etc are never called.

Is the view with the gesture recognizer the firstResponder? Also if you have a GCEventViewController and controllerUserInteractionEnabled

is set to NO, I think the events might not work for gestures.

Did you ever figure out how to determine which UIPressType it is?

-Brian

Right now I'm just using a different recognizer for each button .

I think this is the way you are supposed to do it.