Input Accessory View disappear after Image Picker is cancelled [Swift] - ios

I have a pretty standard inputAccessoryView with image and album buttons. But I found that if album is launched when keyboard is shown (in other words, textView is the first responder), inputAccessoryView disappears when photo album is dismissed. How to make it stay at the bottom of the screen?
My implementation is generic:
let inputContainerView: UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: 40)
override var inputAccessoryView: UIView? {
return inputContainerView
}
lazy var imagePicker: UIImagePickerController = {
let picker = UIImagePickerController()
picker.delegate = self
return picker
}()
// The function that is hooked up to the album button
func handleAlbum() {
if UIImagePickerController.isSourceTypeAvailable(.photoLibrary) {
imagePicker.sourceType = .photoLibrary
imagePicker.allowsEditing = false
present(imagePicker, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
Here is a gif demonstrating the problem. Notice the inputAccessoryView disappeared at the end. Thank you so much!

I solved it. It turns out I need to ask textView to resignFirstResponder() before presenting the image picker. Also, add the following code. It handles the case when user cancelled the pick operation.
func imagePickerControllerDidCancel(_ picker: UIImagePickerController) {
picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}
Per Apple documentation:
Your delegate’s implementation of this method should dismiss the picker view by calling the dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: method of the parent view controller.
Implementation of this method is optional, but expected.
The dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: method is deprecated and should use dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion: instead.

Try adding self.inputAccessoryView.becomeFirstResponder() after image picker is dismissed.

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Popover presentation style on iPhone devices - possible any more?

I'm trying to define a popover view attached to a view like this:
Here's my code:
class MyController: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
...
func displaySignOut(_ sender: UIButton) {
let vc = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "signOutPopover")
vc.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
vc.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 100, height: 30)
present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
let pc = vc.popoverPresentationController!
pc.sourceView = sender
pc.sourceRect = sender.bounds
pc.delegate = self
}
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController, traitCollection: UITraitCollection) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .none
}
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .none
}
}
Because the popover is so small, I'd like to use this style on all devices. I've followed the usual advice (e.g., here) on overriding adaptivePresentationStyle to return UIModalPresentationStyle.none.
This works fine on iPad devices, but on iPhones, it doesn't. On smaller iPhone devices, it comes up full screen all the time. On larger screens (e.g., iPhone 7 Plus), it comes up wrong, but, weirdly, switches to a popover presentation (in both portrait and landscape) if I rotate the device after the popover appears. (If I dismiss the popover and bring it up again, it's wrong again until I rotate the device.) Furthermore, in landscape it comes up in a strange configuration (not full screen as in portrait):
Unlike with a popover presentation, this does not dismiss if I tap outside the popover view itself.
The Apple documentation says (in part):
In a horizontally compact environment, popovers adapt to the UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen presentation style by default.
The "by default" strongly suggests that there's a way to override this behavior. But (as is consistent with this post), overriding adaptivePresentationStyle in the delegate doesn't seem to be the way to do this any more (although it used to work). So is there a new way to modify the default behavior?
I'm using XCode 8.3.3 and Swift 3.1, targeting iOS 9+.
I have created one custom class with storyboard inside that connect
outlet of button and implemented below code.
import UIKit
class PopOverViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var button: UIButton!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
button.backgroundColor = UIColor.purple
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
//Updating the popover size
override var preferredContentSize: CGSize {
get {
let size = CGSize(width: 80, height: 60)
return size
}
set {
super.preferredContentSize = newValue
}
}
//Setup the ViewController for popover presentation
func updatePopOverViewController(_ button: UIButton?, with delegate: AnyObject?) {
guard let button = button else { return }
modalPresentationStyle = .popover
popoverPresentationController?.permittedArrowDirections = [.any]
popoverPresentationController?.backgroundColor = UIColor.purple
popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = button
popoverPresentationController?.sourceRect = button.bounds
popoverPresentationController?.delegate = delegate
}
}
And then Inside ViewController implemented one function to show
popOver on iphone
func showPopOver(button: UIButton!) {
let viewController = PopOverViewController()
viewController.updatePopOverViewController(button, with: self)
present(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
Note:- Tested and this should work on Portrait as well Landscape mode
iOS 15 has some new ways to solve this problem.
Take a look at the WWDC21 Session "Customize and Resize Sheets in UIKit" https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10063
Pretty simple new interface for popovers and customized sheets. Shows how to do non-modal interaction with pop over and the view behind it.

How to enable a currently disabled button in Swift

I have an action button in my iOS application (using Swift 3), which I guess is technically a toolbar item.
I presently disable the button in viewWillAppear() with
actionButton.isEnabled = false
I then try to enable it after an image has been selected:
func imagePickerController(_: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
if let image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage {
imageView.image = image
imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
}
dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
actionButton.isEnabled = true
print("selected an image in picker")
}
And I can see that my print statement occurs as well as the image being selected and activity view controller dismissing, just as expected. HOWEVER, my actionButton stays disabled.
Any ideas why? I'm very new to Swift!
viewWillAppear() is called every time, before your view controller loads. When you dismiss your imagePicker, and go back to presenting your original viewController that viewWillAppear() would be called again, and it would override your actionButton.isEnable = true to being false again. If I were you, I would disable the button in viewDidLoad(), which is called only once.
try to execute the code that changes the UI in the main thread like this:
DispatchQueue.main.async {
actionButton.isEnabled = true
}

Not detecting Dismiss Popover programmatically

I am dismissing a popover view controller programmatically. How can i detect that in my first view controller? Is there a way to send values from the popover to the first one?
Note: popoverPresentationControllerDidDismissPopover does not work when dismissed programmatically.
Any proposition?
this is my code in the main view controller:
let addFriendsPopoverViewController = storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("HomeEmotionPopOver") as! EmotionPopOverViewController
addFriendsPopoverViewController.modalInPopover = true
addFriendsPopoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
addFriendsPopoverViewController.preferredContentSize = CGSizeMake(100, 100)
let popoverMenuViewController = addFriendsPopoverViewController.popoverPresentationController
popoverMenuViewController!.permittedArrowDirections = .Any
popoverMenuViewController!.delegate = self
popoverMenuViewController!.sourceView = self.view
let height = (self.tableView.rowHeight - HeartAttributes.heartSize / 2.0 - 10) + (self.tableView.rowHeight * CGFloat((sender.view?.tag)!)) - 50
popoverMenuViewController!.sourceRect = CGRect(
x: 30,
y: height,
width: 1,
height: 1)
presentViewController(
addFriendsPopoverViewController,
animated: true,
completion: nil)
and in the popover view controller, i'm dismissing it from a button IBAction:
#IBAction func dismissPop(sender: AnyObject) {
self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}
The way you have worded your question is that you are looking for a function on the main view controller that is called when a popover is dismissed.
This technically happens with viewDidAppear(animated:). However, it isn't a full proof solution. If your popover doesn't cover the full screen context, this function wont fire, so it is an unreliable solution.
Really what you want is to invoke a function from the popover alerting the main view controller that it has finished/dismissed. This is easily done with a delegate protocol
protocol PopoverDelegate {
func popoverDismissed()
}
class PopoverViewController {
weak var delegate: PopoverDelegate?
//Your Popover View Controller Code
}
Add the protocol conformance to your main view controller
class MainViewController: UIViewController, PopoverDelegate {
//Main View Controller code
}
Then you need to set the delegate to for the popover to be the main view controller.
let addFriendsPopoverViewController = storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("HomeEmotionPopOver") as! EmotionPopOverViewController
addFriendsPopoverViewController.delegate = self
//The rest of your code
Finally, call this delegate function from your popover view controller when you dismiss.
#IBAction func dismissPop(sender: AnyObject) {
dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
delegate?.popoverDismissed()
}
And in your main view controller, implement the delegate method
func popoverDismissed() {
//Any code to run when popover is dismissed
}
The trick is to dismiss the segue yourself but make it seem that the user initiated it so it can be detected by the delegate method popoverPresentationControllerDidDismissPopover().
I did it by adding a completion closure to the presentingViewController dismiss() function and directly invoked the routine.
if let pvc = self.presentingViewController {
var didDismiss : ((UIPopoverPresentationController) -> Void)? = nil
if let delegate = popoverPresentationController?.delegate {
// check it is okay to dismiss the popover
let okayToDismiss = delegate.popoverPresentationControllerShouldDismissPopover?(popoverPresentationController!) ?? true
if okayToDismiss {
// create completion closure
didDismiss = delegate.popoverPresentationControllerDidDismissPopover
}
}
// use local var to avoid memory leaks
let ppc = popoverPresentationController
// dismiss popover with completion closure
pvc.dismiss(animated: true) {
didDismiss?(ppc!)
}
}
It is working fine for me.

How to code customized pickers in a class of UIView?

I’d like to code a view (popup – window) including two picker on it in order to enter weeks (of Year) and years with two separate picker views. Firstly, I started by creating a new class as subclass of UIView. Next up, I coded the windows, which should pop up, in case it is called.
Now I’ve the problem, that I can’t fill my two picker views with data, as UIView does not support UIPickerViewDataSource.
How can I solve that problem, as I only want to show it as a small pop up and not open an entire UIViewController.
It's supposed to be a controller, displayed in a popover.
The presenter should be UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate with overridden method to support popovers on iPhone (by default, they are gonna be presented modally).
extension ItemViewController: UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .None
}
}
Use this method to present your picker controller:
func instantiatePicker(picker: UIViewController, sender: UIView) {
picker.modalPresentationStyle = .Popover
let ppc = picker.popoverPresentationController!
ppc.delegate = self
ppc.permittedArrowDirections = .Any
ppc.sourceView = sender
ppc.sourceRect = sender.bounds
presentViewController(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
In your picker controller override this property to adjust popover size to your desire, like that:
override var preferredContentSize: CGSize {
get {
return CGSize(width: datePicker.bounds.width, height: datePicker.bounds.height + anotherPicker.bounds.height)
}
set {
super.preferredContentSize = newValue
}
}

Swift - UIPopoverController in iOS 8

I'm trying to add a simple popoverController to my iphone app, and I'm currently struggling with the classic "blank screen" which covers everything when I tap the button.
My code looks like this:
#IBAction func sendTapped(sender: UIBarButtonItem) {
var popView = PopViewController(nibName: "PopView", bundle: nil)
var popController = UIPopoverController(contentViewController: popView)
popController.popoverContentSize = CGSize(width: 3, height: 3)
popController.presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem(sendTappedOutl, permittedArrowDirections: UIPopoverArrowDirection.Up, animated: true)
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController!) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
// Return no adaptive presentation style, use default presentation behaviour
return .None
}
}
The adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController-function was just something I added because I read somewhere that this is what you need to implement to get this function on the iphone. But still: there is still a blank image covering the whole screen, and I do not know how to fix it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The solution I implemented for this is based on an example presented in the 2014 WWDC session View Controller Advancements in iOS 8 (see the slide notes). Note that you do have to implement the adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController function as a part of the UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate, but that function should be outside of your sendTapped function in your main view controller, and you must specify UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate in your class declaration line in that file to make sure that your code modifies that behaviour. I also took the liberty to separate out the logic to present a view controller in a popover into its own function and added a check to make sure the function does not present the request view controller if it is already presented in the current context.
So, your solution could look something like this:
// ViewController must implement UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate
class TheViewController: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
// ...
// The contents of TheViewController class
// ...
#IBAction func sendTapped(sender: UIBarButtonItem) {
let popView = PopViewController(nibName: "PopView", bundle: nil)
self.presentViewControllerAsPopover(popView, barButtonItem: sender)
}
func presentViewControllerAsPopover(viewController: UIViewController, barButtonItem: UIBarButtonItem) {
if let presentedVC = self.presentedViewController {
if presentedVC.nibName == viewController.nibName {
// The view is already being presented
return
}
}
// Specify presentation style first (makes the popoverPresentationController property available)
viewController.modalPresentationStyle = .Popover
let viewPresentationController = viewController.popoverPresentationController?
if let presentationController = viewPresentationController {
presentationController.delegate = self
presentationController.barButtonItem = barButtonItem
presentationController.permittedArrowDirections = .Up
}
viewController.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 30, height: 30)
self.presentViewController(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .None
}
}
Real world implementation
I implemented this approach for input validation on a sign up form in an in-progress app that I host on Github. I implemented it as extensions to UIVIewController in UIViewController+Extensions.swift. You can see it in use in the validation functions in AuthViewController.swift. The presentAlertPopover method takes a string and uses it to set the value of a UILabel in a GenericAlertViewController that I have set up (makes it easy to have dynamic text popovers). But the actual popover magic all happens in the presentViewControllerAsPopover method, which takes two parameters: the UIViewController instance to be presented, and a UIView object to use as the anchor from which to present the popover. The arrow direction is hardcoded as UIPopoverArrowDirection.Up, but that wouldn’t be hard to change.

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