Xamarin Forms only comes with a limited set of Gesture Recognizers, most notably the TapGestureRecognizer. Many times you will want more than just that and hence here is how you implement a custom gesture recognizer. In this example I will add the Pressed and Released events to a Xamarin Forms project.
Sample Project is located on Sample-XF-Gestures on GitHub
Create Xamarin Forms Gesture Recognizers
In our common project, we need to create our gesture recognizer for use in Xamarin Forms. I have done 2 examples of a PressedGestureRecognizer and ReleasedGestureRecognizer.
And the ReleasedGestureRecognizer the same again.
Add Custom Renderer
Next we need to a custom renderer for the control we want to add these gestures to. In this example I am using a Label.
UWP
Android
iOS
These renderers attach the native events to call the Command of the Gesture Recognizer.
Using Gesture Recognizer
Now that we have setup everything, we can now easily add the gesture recognizer to any labels.
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