iOS UIControl Category That Allows You To Handle Events Using Blocks

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I previously mentioned a library that adds many different block based events to several UIControl objects.

Here’s a UIControl category from Andy Lavoy called ALActionBlocks that allows you to easily use blocks for UIControl events where you would normally supply an @selector method.

As shown in the readme for ALActionBlocks you can add a block to a UIControl with:

// Assuming you have a UIButton named ‘button’
[button handleControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside withBlock:^() {
NSLog(@"button pressed: %@", [button titleForState:UIControlStateNormal]);
}];

You can then remove the blocks with:

[button removeActionBlocksForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

You can find ALActionBlocks on Github here.

You can read this answer on Stackoverflow that explains the technique used to pass a block for the @selector used by the UIControl.