How to add 3D touch quick actions inside an app? Like in contacts

Question

Is there an API to show quick actions menu on force touch inside an app? I only see APIs for showing quick actions menu when you swipe-up peek view. But I want to do something like the example from apple 3D touch page.

Here is what I want to achieve 3D touch quick actions menu on contacts on 6s

Answer 1

There might be another solution but one of the I think is you can show this custom view on detection of 3D touch. You can do it from

• UIViewControllerPreviewingDelegate method previewingContext:viewControllerForLocation: or you can use force and maximumPossibleForce properties of UITouch to detect pressure applied on screen and show this custom view after particular pressure level.

Answer 2

You can try my own library ActionsList which has the same look and feel as Apple's Quick Actions menu.

It has not 3D Touch support yet, but it can help you with presenting the same actions list as on the provider screenshot.

First you should create list.

If you want to present it from UIButton, UIBarButtonItem of UITabBarItem there is built-in methods for creating list:

// element is UIButton, UIBarButtonItem or UITabBarItem
let list = element.createActionsList()

Otherwise you should use ActionsListModel structure:

let list = ActionsListModel(senderView: viewThatInitiatedListPresenting,
                            sourceView: viewToPresentListFrom,
                            delegate: listDelegate)

Then add actions to the list

list.add(action: ActionsListDefaultButtonModel(localizedTitle: "Create Alarm", 
                 image: UIImage(named: "Alarm clock"),
                 action: { action in
                     // You can use action's list property to control it

                     // - To dismiss
                     action.list?.dismiss()

                     // - To update action appearance
                     action.appearance.//anything
                     // Do not forget to reload actions to apply changes
                     action.list?.reloadActions()
          }))

After that you can present list

list.present()

// Save list or it will be deallocated and not reachable outside of the scope it was created in
self.list = list