Prevent touch events on subviews of scrolling UIScrollView in iOS7

Question

I have a UIControl inside a UIScrollView. In my UIControl's init, I rig up some touch event handlers, e.g.

[self addTarget:_delegate
         action:@selector(touchedDown) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];

iOS6 and iOS7 behave differently when I do the following:

1. Swipe the UIScrollView to start scrolling
2. Tap the UIScrollView to stop scrolling

In iOS6, my app continues to behave as intended: the tap at step #2 does not call touchedDown -- the UIScrollView swallows the touch event as it immediately stops scrolling.

But in iOS7, the UIScrollView stops scrolling as expected, while touchedDown is still called.

Was there a documented API change? I'd like my app to behave identically to iOS6 in iOS7.

Answer 1

workaround for iOS 7

@interface UIScrollViewFixed : UIScrollView

@end

@implementation UIScrollViewFixed

- (UIView *)hitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    if (self.isDragging || self.isDecelerating) {
        return self;
    }
    return [super hitTest:point withEvent:event];
}

@end