Deactivate UIScrollView decelerating

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Is there a way to deactivate the decelerating of a UIScrollView?

I want to allow the user to scroll the canvas, but I don't want that the canvas continues scrolling after the user lifted the finger.

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This can be done by utilizing the UIScrollView delegate method scrollViewWillBeginDecelerating to automatically set the content offset to the current screen position.

To implement:

  1. Assign a delegate to your UIScrollView object if you have not already done so.
  2. In your delegate's .m implementation file, add the following lines of code:

    -(void)scrollViewWillBeginDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{  
        [scrollView setContentOffset:scrollView.contentOffset animated:YES];   
    }
    

Voila! No more auto-scroll.

You can just turn up the deceleration rate very high. With an infinite rate, it would stop immediately. Try setting the rate to these constants:

scrollView.decelerationRate = UIScrollViewDecelerationRateNormal;

and

scrollView.decelerationRate = UIScrollViewDecelerationRateFast;

If fast still isn't fast enough for you, UIScrollViewDecelerationRateFast is just typedef'ed as a float, so you can just multiply it by a factor of 10 or so to speed it up even more.

Previous Swift version:↓

scrollView.decelerationRate = UIScrollView.DecelerationRate.fast

Current Swift 4.2 version code:↓

scrollView.decelerationRate = UIScrollViewDecelerationRateFast
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