What I'm trying to do: place the tab bar at the bottom of the iPhone X display where it belongs, and also put the navigation bar at the top of the display.
I've been trying to accomplish what I thought would be a straightforward task of using Safe Areas in the storyboard to position the tab bar near the bottom of the iPhone X's display. I'm missing something fundamental.
I've read a lot of writeup about how to do this, including this one. It includes a screenshot of a tab bar control scene that looks like this:
But I can't create a view inside my Tab Bar Controller to put my tab bar item in, as the article mentions. It's my understanding that I'll use the safe area of the view that should contain the tab bar item. But it won't let me put a view anywhere except outside the Controller view. I've tried using "embed" - but all options are greyed out.
Same goes for a navigation controller to move a navigation bar to the top of the display.
The funny thing is that IB renders it in the right place, but on my device, the tab bar is way above where it should be (and the navigation bar way below).
I have "Opens in" set to "Latest Xcode (9.0) and Builds for iOS 11.1 set in the scene's "Interface Builder Document", and "use Safe Area Layout Guides" is checked. I'm not using any custom classes for my tab bar controller or tab bar. I'm using XCode 9.3 and iOS 11.3.1
What's the simple thing that I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
The article explains how to adapt your app if you're using a custom navigation bar or a custom tab bar.
If you're using the standard navigation bar or tab bar then you have to make sure it's top or bottom (depending on the element) constraints are connected to the superview and not the Safe Area layout guide. UIKit makes sure these elements are correctly rendered with spacing at the top or bottom on an iPhone X device. Check out this screenshot for clarification.
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I'm working on iOS application in Swift and I'm showing a table views in Navigation Controller with a Navigation bar.
I'd like to implemented the same "Toolbar experience" as the Files app does. (see attached image) in order to present additional options/buttons without cluttering the screen (for UX purposes mostly).
I could not find anything related, expect for workaround with toolbar on top, but it does not work as part of the navigation bar, meaning that after navigation that toolbar is no following the navigation bar but instead stays on the previous controller.
The ideal behavior is:
to expand when scrolling down (requires table view to be scrolled to top) and to collapse when scrolling down.
to keep the toolbar attached to the navigation bar on navigation (push & pop)
In the screenshot, the toolbar is showing additional options (under the search bar). I'd very much like to do the same.
I'm testing iPhone X behavior using the Xcode simulator. For some odd reason, if I'm hiding the Status Bar the Navigation Bar pushed upwards causing the title to completely disappear and cutting the left and right buttons. This is happening only on the iPhone X.
Illustration:
How can I hide the status bar and keep the Navigation Bar at a visible position?
UPDATE:
Sample project for your convince:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qJARV-Oc9ra1hvZkpXZm9lRUE/view?usp=sharing
One solution is to embed the navigation controller inside a container view controller which is properly constrained to the safe area.
Just create another view controller and drag a "Container View" from the Object Library. This view has top, bottom, leading, and trailing constraints to the safe area, all with constants equal to 0. If you control-drag from the container view to the navigation controller, you'll get an option to set an "embed segue" which will embed the selected view controller as a child view controller.
I set the status bar to be hidden on the new view controller I created, and it works fine.
This feels like something that UINavigationBar should handle automatically, but this workaround seems like it should work pretty well.
Another note: if you change the color of the navigation bar, you'll also need to create another view above the container view, and change its color to match the color of the navigation bar.
I, for a small app, changed from using a Push to a Modal segue and adding in my own navigation bar. I used Push because it looks good, and already had a Modal for another part, which I wanted to animate differently for style reasons.
For smaller apps this may be the quickest and easiest solution, but my next update I need to use the navigation controller. For that I think I'll switch on the status bar, which is no big deal for me and allows it to work.
I think you need to use "safeAreaLayoutGuide" new update in iOS 11
Apple has provided us with the necessary APIs to get around the unsafe regions of this iphone x. We do this by using the new safeAreaLayoutGuide anchors in our code
safeAreaLayoutGuide
I am developing an iOS application using Universal Story board and autolayout. The base views of my view controllers are leaving a space at the bottom and are not taking the full height of the screen. What could be the reason behind this?
Go to property area in the storyboard and choose your main view then select all the lines which is available in that area. then it holds the full view of the page.
It looks like your view is taking up the whole screen but is hidden behind a tab bar.
This will happen when you include them inside of a UITabbarController. The reason they reach down underneath the tab bar is because it is translucent (you can see a blurred version of the view through it).
This tutorial from Ray Wenderlich gives a good example and explanation of how to set this up in a storyboard.
https://www.raywenderlich.com/50308/storyboards-tutorial-in-ios-7-part-1
Actually the "Show Toolbar" option for my navigation controller was checked. The space at the bottom was taken by the toolbar.
I am working on an iPad app and when I try to put the navigation bar on the first view controller, it fits in the main storyboard but is too small (also comes in contact with the status bar) when I run the simulator (as seen in the picture below):
The width and height in the storyboard are set to regular, not sure if it is relevant to this question. How do I fix this?
It looks like you're just adding a navigation bar. Are you sure you don't want a navigation controller?
If you do just want the navigation bar the you need to add constraints to pin it to the left and right of the screen.
Click the "add constraints" button and pin to left right and top.
Click on your view and go to Editor > Embed in > Navigation Controller.
So I was editing a project of mine today, and I when I was running it I suddenly realized that the bottom bar buttons don't show at all. It used to in previous builds. I even put together a simple example and ran the product in the simulator -- no bottom bar buttons or bottom bar!!! Here's what I want to see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10838242/xcodestoryboard.png
But that bottom bar doesn't show.
What's going on here? I even set the view's bottom bar to "opaque toolbar." It just doesn't show. Using Xcode 5.1.1 -- is this an issue with this version of Xcode?
Here's the super-simple project:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10838242/Test2.zip
In the "super-simple" project, it's because your navigation controller's Shows Toolbar is turned off (in the storyboard).
Check that checkbox and run the project; the bottom bar will now appear (I tried it so I know it works!).
I can't comment on Matt's post (which is correct), but in addition to his "Shows Toolbar" toggle, you can specify what kind of toolbar you want in the app from the navigation controller in the storyboard (i.e. opaque toolbar, translucent toolbar, translucent black tab bar, etc).