Multiline navigation bar title truncating on iOS13 - ios

I have a view controller where I need to display multiline title on the navigation bar. For this, I have written a protocol like this -
import UIKit
protocol CustomNavigationBar {
func setupNavigationMultilineTitle(titleText: String, prefersLargeTitles: Bool, largeTitleDisplayMode: UINavigationItem.LargeTitleDisplayMode)
}
And then extended it -
extension CustomNavigationBar where Self : UIViewController {
func setupNavigationMultilineTitle(titleText: String, prefersLargeTitles: Bool = true, largeTitleDisplayMode: UINavigationItem.LargeTitleDisplayMode = .automatic ) {
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = prefersLargeTitles
self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = largeTitleDisplayMode
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.black,
NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 18, weight: .semibold)
]
self.title = titleText
if let navBarSubViews = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews {
for navItem in navBarSubViews {
for itemSubView in navItem.subviews {
if let largeLabel = itemSubView as? UILabel {
largeLabel.text = self.title
largeLabel.numberOfLines = 0
largeLabel.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
largeLabel.sizeToFit()
}
}
}
}
}
}
In my view controller, I conform to this protocol and inside viewDidAppear method, I call setupNavigationMultilineTitle method as follows -
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
self.setupNavigationMultilineTitle(titleText: "This is created for testing This is created for testing This is created for testing This is created for testing This is created for testing")
}
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This works good on an iPhone running lesser than iOS13.
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However, on an iPhone running greater than iOS 13, it just displays
one line and then truncates.
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Has there been any changes in the UINavigationBar in iOS13? I researched and found something about background color but nothing related to multi line title using prefersLargeTitles and largeTitleDisplayMode.
Can someone please help me getting this up on iOS13?
Thanks!!

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Change font of prompt in UINavigationController

can someone help me out in changing font, size and color in prompt string on my NavigationController?
In the attachment, I want to modify "Consulenze" string.
Thank you everybody
Edit: I already tried the solution found here but no results.
You can try following ways:
1) In viewDidLoad of your ViewController add this lines:
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.white
let navigationTitleFont = UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: navigationTitleFont]
2) You can create completely custom nav bar, just add UIView to the top your view and add all necessary elements - buttons, labels, etc.
Simply add this code in your ViewController. You can change both the Prompt text and color by using this code -
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
let subviews = view.subviews
if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
label.textColor = UIColor.red
label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 30)
}
}
}
}
OUTPUT -
Additional -

Multiple lines for large titles in navigation bars in iOS 11

Is it possible to have the new large titles for navigation bars in iOS 11 show multiple lines? The App Store app does this but I can't find anything in the current documentation to do this. The standard behavior just shows one line with ellipsis if it's too long.
Add following code into viewWillAppear:
navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .automatic
self.title = "Hello big text, For navigation large style bar"
navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.black, NSAttributedStringKey.font : UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .largeTitle)]
var count = 0
for item in(self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews)! {
for sub in item.subviews{
if sub is UILabel{
if count == 1 {
break;
}
let titleLab :UILabel = sub as! UILabel
titleLab.numberOfLines = 0
titleLab.text = self.title
titleLab.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
count = count + 1
}
}
}
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.layoutSubviews()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.layoutIfNeeded()
Facing issue with back button will update soon..
There is a way to do this simply by using a non-public API. Use at your own risk:
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
title = "Thunderbox Entertaiment"
navigationItem.enableMultilineTitle()
}
}
extension UINavigationItem {
func enableMultilineTitle() {
setValue(true, forKey: "__largeTitleTwoLineMode")
}
}
Result:

Can't change UINavigationBar prompt color

I am unable to change the prompt color on my navigation bar. I've tried the code below in viewDidLoad, but nothing happens.
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
Am I missing something? Is the code above wrong?
I was able to make the prompt color white on iOS 11 was setting the barStyle to black. I set the other color attributes (like the desired background color) using the appearance proxy:
myNavbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack; // Objective-C
myNavbar.barStyle = .black // Swift
It seems like you're right about this one. You need to use UIAppearance to style the prompt text on iOS 11.
I've filed radar #34758558 that the titleTextAttributes property just stopped working for prompt in iOS 11.
The good news is that there are a couple of workarounds, which we can uncover by using Xcode's view hierarchy debugger:
// 1. This works, but potentially changes *all* labels in the navigation bar.
// If you want this, it works.
UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UINavigationBar.self]).textColor = UIColor.white
The prompt is just a UILabel. If we use UIAppearance's whenContainedInInstancesOf:, we can pretty easily update the color the way we want.
If you look closely, you'll notice that there's also a wrapper view on the UILabel. It has its own class that might respond to UIAppearance...
// 2. This is a more precise workaround but it requires using a private class.
if let promptClass = NSClassFromString("_UINavigationBarModernPromptView") as? UIAppearanceContainer.Type
{
UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [promptClass]).textColor = UIColor.white
}
I'd advise sticking to the more general solution, since it doesn't use private API. (App review, etc.) Check out what you get with either of these two solutions:
You may use
for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
let subviews = view.subviews
if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
label.textColor = UIColor.white
label.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}
}
It will be a temporary workaround until they'll fix it
More complicated version to support old and new iOS
func updatePromptUI(for state: State) {
if (state != .Online) {
//workaround for SOFT-7019 (iOS 11 bug - Offline message has transparent background)
if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
showPromptView()
} else {
showOldPromptView()
}
}
else {
self.navigationItem.prompt = nil
if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
self.removePromptView()
} else {
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = nil
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.lightGray]
}
}
}
private func showOldPromptView() {
self.navigationItem.prompt = "Network Offline. Some actions may be unavailable."
let navbarFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: navbarFont, NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.white]
}
private func showPromptView() {
self.navigationItem.prompt = String()
self.removePromptView()
let promptView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: 18))
promptView.backgroundColor = .red
let promptLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 2, width: promptView.frame.width, height: 14))
promptLabel.text = "Network Offline. Some actions may be unavailable."
promptLabel.textColor = .white
promptLabel.textAlignment = .center
promptLabel.font = promptLabel.font.withSize(13)
promptView.addSubview(promptLabel)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(promptView)
}
private func removePromptView() {
for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
view.removeFromSuperview()
}
}
I suggest using a custom UINavigationBar subclass and overriding layoutSubviews:
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.topItem.prompt) {
UILabel *promptLabel = [[self recursiveSubviewsOfKind:UILabel.class] selectFirstObjectUsingBlock:^BOOL(UILabel *label) {
return [label.text isEqualToString:self.topItem.prompt];
}];
promptLabel.textColor = self.tintColor;
}
}
Basically I'm enumerating all UILabels in the subview hierarchy and check if their text matches the prompt text. Then we set the textColor to the tintColor (feel free to use a custom color). That way, we don't have to hardcode the private _UINavigationBarModernPromptView class as the prompt label's superview. So the code is be a bit more future-proof.
Converting the code to Swift and implementing the helper methods recursiveSubviewsOfKind: and selectFirstObjectUsingBlock: are left as an exercise to the reader 😉.
You can try this:
import UIKit
class ViewController: UITableViewController {
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
updatePrompt()
}
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
updatePrompt()
}
func updatePrompt() {
navigationItem.prompt = " "
for view in navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] where NSStringFromClass(view.classForCoder) == "_UINavigationBarModernPromptView" {
if let prompt = view.subviews.first as? UILabel {
prompt.text = "Hello Red Prompt"
prompt.textColor = .red
}
}
navigationItem.title = "This is the title (Another color)"
}
}
Moshe's first answer didn't work for me because it changed the labels inside of system VCs like mail and text compose VCs. I could change the background of those nav bars but that opens up a whole other can of worms. I didn't want to go the private class route so I only changed UILabels contained inside of my custom navigation bar subclass.
UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [NavigationBar.self]).textColor = UIColor.white
Try this out:->
navController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: UIColor.red]
I've found next work around for iOS 11.
You need set at viewDidLoad
navigationItem.prompt = UINavigationController.fakeUniqueText
and after that put next thing
navigationController?.promptLabel(completion: { label in
label?.textColor = .white
label?.font = Font.regularFont(size: .p12)
})
extension UINavigationController {
public static let fakeUniqueText = "\n\n\n\n\n"
func promptLabel(completion: #escaping (UILabel?) -> Void) {
gloabalThread(after: 0.5) { [weak self] in
guard let `self` = self else {
return
}
let label = self.findPromptLabel(at: self.navigationBar)
mainThread {
completion(label)
}
}
}
func findPromptLabel(at view: UIView) -> UILabel? {
if let label = view as? UILabel {
if label.text == UINavigationController.fakeUniqueText {
return label
}
}
var label: UILabel?
view.subviews.forEach { subview in
if let promptLabel = findPromptLabel(at: subview) {
label = promptLabel
}
}
return label
}
}
public func mainThread(_ completion: #escaping SimpleCompletion) {
DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: completion)
}
public func gloabalThread(after: Double, completion: #escaping SimpleCompletion) {
DispatchQueue.global().asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + after) {
completion()
}
}

How to change selected segment tintColor of UISegmentedControl in Swift

I want to change the tintColor of UISegmentedControl selected segment in Swift 3.
I've searched a lot of answers in Objective-c...
This is my code:
class ViewController:UIViewController{
var segment:UISegmentedControl
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
segment.insertSegment(withTitle: "AAA", at: 0, animated: true)
segment.insertSegment(withTitle: "BBB", at: 1, animated: true)
segment.insertSegment(withTitle: "CCC", at: 2, animated: true)
segment.addTarget(self, action: #selector(changeValue), for: .valueChanged)
segment.selectedSegmentIndex = 0
view.addSubview(segment)
}
func changeValue(sender:AnyObject) {
//I don't know how to do that change color when segment selected
//
}
}
Thanks!
Use the code below for above ios 13,
if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
segment.selectedSegmentTintColor = .red
} else {
segment.tintColor = .red
}
To programmatically change tint color of segment,
segment.tintColor = UIColor.yellow
if you want to set the color of the title for example, you can do it like this:
let titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: Color.blue]
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, forState: .Selected)
In Main.storyboard, select segmentControl and change the property "Tint" as shown in below screenshot:
If you create the segmentedControl programmatically, then use this:
segment.tintColor = UIColor.red
A new property was added in iOS 13: selectedSegementTintColor. The old tintColor property no longer works in iOS 13.
You can find a more complete writeup of the changes here iOS 13 UISegmentedControl: 3 important changes
Add the following code to your changeValue function:
func changeValue(sender: UISegmentedControl){
for i in 0..<sender.subviews.count {
if sender.subviews[i].isSelected() {
var tintcolor = UIColor.red // choose the color you want here
sender.subviews[i].tintColor = tintcolor
}
else {
sender.subviews[i].tintColor = nil
}
}
}
This is a swift version of the accepted answer from this question: UISegmentedControl selected segment color

Change TabBarItem title font to bold in Swift for iOS

I'm trying to set the font weight of a selected tab bar item to bold font. It seems as it has no effect. Any idea what is wrong. forState: .Normal works as expected, forState: .Selected has no effect.
let tabBarItem0 = tabBar.items![0] as! UITabBarItem
var selectedImage0 : UIImage = UIImage(named:"ic_tabbar_item_one")!.imageWithRenderingMode(UIImageRenderingMode.AlwaysOriginal)
var fontLight:UIFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-UltraLight", size: 12)!
var fontBold:UIFont = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold", size: 12)!
tabBarItem0.image = unselectedImage0
tabBarItem0.selectedImage = selectedImage0
tabBarItem0.title = "Overview"
tabBarItem0.setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor(),
NSFontAttributeName: fontLight
], forState: .Normal)
tabBarItem0.setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor(),
NSFontAttributeName: fontBold
], forState: UIControlState.Selected)
FOUND THE SOLUTION (Swift 3, XCode 8.1)
In Storyboard, give a unique Tag to each UITabBarItem you have: For every tab -> Select it and go to it's "Attributes Inspector" -> Give each one a unique number in the "Tag" field but you should not use zero (I used 1 through 4).
This sets us up for later, to identify which tab is pressed.
Create a new subclass of UITabBarController and then assign it: FILE -> New File -> iOS Cocoa Touch -> create a Subclass of UITabBarController. Assign the new .swift file to your
UITabBarController under "Identity Inspector."
We will need custom logic in our UITabBarController.
Create a new subclass of UITabBarItem, assign the same file to all of your UITabBarItems: FILE -> New File -> iOS Cocoa Touch -> create a Subclass of UITabBarItem and assign the same one to all of your tabs.
We will need a shared custom logic in our tab bar items.
Add this code to your UITabBarItem subclass, it sets up the initial state (primary tab bold, the rest unselected) and will allow for programmatic tab changes as well:
class MyUITabBarItemSubclass: UITabBarItem {
//choose initial state fonts and weights here
let normalTitleFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
let selectedTitleFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: UIFontWeightBold)
//choose initial state colors here
let normalTitleColor = UIColor.gray
let selectedTitleColor = UIColor.black
//assigns the proper initial state logic when each tab instantiates
override func awakeFromNib() {
super.awakeFromNib()
//this tag # should be your primary tab's Tag*
if self.tag == 1 {
self.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: selectedTitleFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: selectedTitleColor], for: UIControlState.normal)
} else {
self.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: normalTitleFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: normalTitleColor], for: UIControlState.normal)
}
}
}
Here we set up the initial state so that the tabs are set correctly when the app opens up, we'll take care of the physical tab presses in the next subclass.
Add this code to your UITabBarController subclass, it's the logic for assigning the correct states as you press on the tabs.
class MyUITabBarControllerSubclass: UITabBarController {
//choose normal and selected fonts here
let normalTitleFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
let selectedTitleFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: UIFontWeightBold)
//choose normal and selected colors here
let normalTitleColor = UIColor.gray
let selectedTitleColor = UIColor.black
//the following is a delegate method from the UITabBar protocol that's available
//to UITabBarController automatically. It sends us information every
//time a tab is pressed. Since we Tagged our tabs earlier, we'll know which one was pressed,
//and pass that identifier into a function to set our button states for us
override func tabBar(_ tabBar: UITabBar, didSelect item: UITabBarItem) {
setButtonStates(itemTag: item.tag)
}
//the function takes the tabBar.tag as an Int
func setButtonStates (itemTag: Int) {
//making an array of all the tabs
let tabs = self.tabBar.items
//looping through and setting the states
var x = 0
while x < (tabs?.count)! {
if tabs?[x].tag == itemTag {
tabs?[x].setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: selectedTitleFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: selectedTitleColor], for: UIControlState.normal)
} else {
tabs?[x].setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: normalTitleFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: normalTitleColor], for: UIControlState.normal)
}
x += 1
}
}
}
It looks like this was such a pain because for some reason the tabs do not recognize state changes into ".Selected". We had to do everything by working with .Normal states only - basically detecting the state changes ourselves.
You can programmatically change the tabs and still detect state changes by... I'll update this later if anyone has an interest, just ask.
Hope this helped!
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(
[NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name:"your_font_name", size:11)!,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor(rgb: 0x929292)],
forState: .Normal)
I've faced the same issue when tried to change font of selected item. Looks like titleTextAttributes' font parameter is only useful when setting them to normal state. That's why I implemented UITabBarControllerDelegate where I update attributes for currently selected item. You should call updateSelection() method after UITabBarControllers loadView() too. Or you can call updateSelection() method in overridden selectedItem setter.
extension TabBarController: UITabBarControllerDelegate {
func tabBarController(_ tabBarController: UITabBarController, didSelect viewController: UIViewController) {
updateSelection()
}
func updateSelection() {
let normalFont = Fonts.Lato.light.withSize(10)
let selectedFont = Fonts.Lato.bold.withSize(10)
viewControllers?.forEach {
let selected = $0 == self.selectedViewController
$0.tabBarItem.setTitleTextAttributes([.font: selected ? selectedFont : normalFont], for: .normal)
}
}
}
Build Settings\Swift Language Version: 4.1
General\Deployment Target: 10.3
import UIKit
class FirstViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let attrsNormal = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.black,
NSAttributedStringKey.font : UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 14)!]
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(attrsNormal,
for: UIControlState.normal)
let attrsSelected = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.red,
NSAttributedStringKey.font : UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 14)!]
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(attrsSelected,
for: UIControlState.selected)
}
...
}
When I try to change font of selected tab by using UITabBarItem but it doesn't work. Adoption of delegate is suggested to get informed when tab changes. I just put pieces together.
private class MyTabBarController: UITabBarController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
delegate = self
}
override func setViewControllers(_ viewControllers: [UIViewController]?, animated: Bool) {
super.setViewControllers(viewControllers, animated: animated)
updateTabBarAppearance()
}
}
extension MyTabBarController: UITabBarControllerDelegate {
public func tabBarController(_ tabBarController: UITabBarController, didSelect viewController: UIViewController) {
updateTabBarAppearance()
}
func updateTabBarAppearance() {
self.tabBar.tintColor = .red
let unselectedLabelFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 18, weight: .regular)
let selectedLabelFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20, weight: .semibold)
let labelColor = UIColor.init(red: 38/255.0, green: 38/255.0, blue: 38/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
let selectedIconColor = UIColor.init(red: 8/255.0, green: 8/255.0, blue: 8/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
viewControllers?.forEach {
let isSelected = $0 == self.selectedViewController
let selectedFont = isSelected ? selectedLabelFont : unselectedLabelFont
$0.tabBarItem.setTitleTextAttributes([.font: selectedFont, .foregroundColor: labelColor], for: .normal)
}
}
}
To set the TitleTextAttribute, you should use the appearance proxy like: [UIBarItem appearance]
The problem is that the state of tabBarItem0 is not changed to Selected. Because this is UITabBarItem which represents a single element of a UITabBar. So, you can not directly change the status using UITabBarItem API. You have to change it state by assigning selectedItem.
This information is gained from documentation and I suggest all programmers to have skills like this. Hopefully, this will help.

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