shouldDismissOnTapOutside (and swipe) does not work in all situations

[sabiland]

If you tap (or swipe) outside popup - BUT over/on existing UI control (UIButton, etc.)

shouldDismissOnTapOutside
shouldDismissOnSwipeOutside

does not work. It would really be helpful to cover this. It is difficult otherwise (complex UI, many UI controls) to cover all those situations and hide popup manually.

[andreamazz]

I see your point.
This is going to be annoying, I'd have to resort to adding an invisible overlay to the container view, which is not a stellar solution. If anyone else is aware of a better solution that involves just the current gesture recognizer, that'd be swell.

[gpambrozio]

I had the same problem and tried adding a UIPanGestureRecognizer to the view. This recognizer is a good candidate because it would send an event early on even if you don't really pan and you can already dismiss in this situation. But it does not work if the view you're adding on top of is a scrollable view for example. So to solve my problem I added a transparent overlay to the view I want to have the popover on and add this recognizer to that view. Then I remove the view as part of the dismissHandler That's the only way I could see to solve this.