How to implement touch and hold for sprite kit?

Question

I recently started working with sprite-kit. I know touchesBegan works for just one tap but is there something i can use that will recognize a touch being held down?

Answer 1

If you want to implement something like shooting then you need to start shooting in touchesBegan method and stop shooting in touchesEnded method:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self startShooting];
}

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self stopShooting];
}

For other purposes you can add UILongPressGestureRecognizer to the SKScene