Where should I implement gesture recognisers at best: ViewController or UIView?

[kiessan]

I would like to know how to best possible address the following issue:

I have a single ViewController. Its view contains a great number of complex subviews (subclass of UIView). Due to the complexity some of these UIViews initialise their own UIGestureRecognisers and implement the according target actions. As I want to coordinate the gestures of various subviews I have to set the single once ViewController as the gesture's delegate. There are various possibilities for that.

1) Initialize ALL gestures in the the viewController (this will lead to a massive viewController)

2) defining a protocol in the UIVIews (getViewController), implemented by the ViewController

@protocol CustomViewDelegate <NSObject>
@required
- (UIViewController *)getViewController;
@end

3) customise the init method of the UIViews and using the ViewController as an option.

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame andViewController:(UIViewController *)vc;

What is the most elegant possibility to solve this issue? Is it OK to implement target actions inside a UIView object?

Thanks for your thoughts...