UIPanGestureRecognizer - Only vertical or horizontal

I created a solution with subclassing like in the answer @LocoMike provided, but used the more effective detection mechanism via initial velocity as provided by @Hejazi. I'm also using Swift, but this should be easy to translate to Obj-C if desired.

Advantages over other solutions:

• Simpler and more concise than other subclassing solutions. No additional state to manage.
• Direction detection happens prior to sending Began action, so your pan gesture selector receives no messages if the wrong direction is swiped.
• After initial direction is determined, direction logic is no longer consulted. This results in the generally desired behavior of activating your recognizer if the initial direction is correct, but does not cancel the gesture after it has begun if a user's finger doesn't travel perfectly along the direction.

Here's the code:

import UIKit.UIGestureRecognizerSubclass

enum PanDirection {
    case vertical
    case horizontal
}

class PanDirectionGestureRecognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer {

    let direction: PanDirection

    init(direction: PanDirection, target: AnyObject, action: Selector) {
        self.direction = direction
        super.init(target: target, action: action)
    }

    override func touchesMoved(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent) {
        super.touchesMoved(touches, with: event)

        if state == .began {
            let vel = velocity(in: view)
            switch direction {
            case .horizontal where fabs(vel.y) > fabs(vel.x):
                state = .cancelled
            case .vertical where fabs(vel.x) > fabs(vel.y):
                state = .cancelled
            default:
                break
            }
        }
    }
}

Example of usage:

let panGestureRecognizer = PanDirectionGestureRecognizer(direction: .horizontal, target: self, action: #selector(handlePanGesture(_:)))
panGestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = false
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(panGestureRecognizer)

func handlePanGesture(_ pan: UIPanGestureRecognizer) {
    let percent = max(pan.translation(in: view).x, 0) / view.frame.width

    switch pan.state {
    case .began:
    ...
}

Just do this for the vertical pan gesture recognizer, it works for me:

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)panGestureRecognizer {
    CGPoint velocity = [panGestureRecognizer velocityInView:someView];
    return fabs(velocity.y) > fabs(velocity.x);
}

And for Swift:

func gestureRecognizerShouldBegin(_ gestureRecognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
    let velocity = gestureRecognizer.velocity(in: someView)
    return abs(velocity.x) > abs(velocity.y)
}