Quick Action: The feature that make you easily access the important task on iOS13

Pattaravadee Luamsomboon
2 min readJan 4, 2020

Today I will talk about context menus (Simply call it “Quick Action”) which is the new feature on iOS13 and later. If your device supports 3D Touch-enabled, you might familiar with this feature.

The content in this blog includes

  • What is the context menus.
  • How are the different between context menus and peek and pop (3D Touch)
  • How to implement context menus on UICollectionView, UITableView and UIImage.

What is Context menus?

Context menus is similar to Peek and Pop (3D Touch) but it has some difference. The purpose of them is to help facilitate user for accessing important tasks or tasks that are performed frequently.

For example

  • On the icon app : Camera, New post, View Activity and Direct on Instagram. All of these actions is the main feature of application and user often used.
  • Within application : Link preview and action list on Safari.
Finnomena iOS Application contains quick action on the icon app and within application

What are the different between Context menus and Peek and Pop?

Do you get bored? Come on wake up. It’s time to code!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

How to implement context menus on UICollectionView, UITableView and UIImage.

In this part, I will show my code which implement UICollectionView, UITableView and UIImage with context menu.

Let’s start with UICollectionView with Context menus part :

UITableView with Context menus part :

UIImage with Context menus part :

Let’s try it yourself!

I hope this blog will give the benefit for you guys. If you have any question, feel free to ask me. 🤗

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