I'm having trouble at TableViewController.
I want to add floating button, but I found out that if I create tableview with TableviewController in Storyboard, then tableview is superview in that view controller, which means only way to add button is adding button in tableview as one of a cell, which is not floating button. (Maybe I'm wrong. I'm a bit confused. I can't add another view by Storyboard.)
I googled several times and I think the only solution is to add button by using UIWindow, but part of the solution codes are deprecated.
I hope I can get alternate solution for my problem.
Obviously the best solution is using UIViewController and adding UITableView and your button as subviews (as #Surjeet Singh suggested in comment). However if you face troubles doing this (maybe too complex right now), you can add UIButton as subview of your keyWindow as workaround. however keep in mind that you need to manually remove the button from keyWindow once your UITableViewController is going to disappear, or else your button will be appearing on other UIViewControllers. Here is the workaround solution:
func addFloatingButton() {
let keyWindow = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow
let button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 100))
button.backgroundColor = .red
keyWindow?.addSubview(button)
}
Im not new to swift but new to using storyboard, i typically do everything programmatically but decided to change it up a bit.
I have a storyboard with a bunch of UIButtons(numbers 0 - 9, similar to a calculator) and i would like to add a view on the lowest layer before all the buttons are added. So in terms of layers : UIView -> UIButtons
I thought simply adding the viewDidLoad() and putting the view first would work but it didn't:
override func viewDidLoad() {
blurView = BlurViewEffect(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.bounds.width, height: self.view.bounds.height))
self.view.addSubview(blurView)
designButtons()
}
Any idea how I can load the storyboard last?
There's no way to load the storyboard before the viewDidLoad method. Storyboards get serialized, so basically they're loaded with the init:coder method.
However, typical layouting tools should do the trick for your needs. Simply use view.sendSubviewToBack(blurView) to make sure your blurView is at the back of the view.
How can I create A UISearchBar inside of a Toolbar in Swift? If I use the Interface Builder I get the following error:
error: Illegal Configuration: UISearchBar embedded in UIBarButtonItems (Only available in iPad documents)
Is there a Swift solution for this problem? The Toolbar will only be available on iPad.
UIToolBar is just a custom UIView, so you have three options (that I can see) for your implementation:
First, if you want to stick the search bar in the toolbar here's the code:
var searchBar = UISearchBar(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 50))
var myView = UIView(frame: searchBar.frame)
myView.addSubview(searchBar)
var barButtonItem = [UIBarButtonItem(customView: myView)]
toolBar.setItems(barButtonItem, animated: false)
Second, if you want the search bar in the nav bar on your screen you can do the following:
let searchBar = UISearchBar(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 300, 50))
navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(searchBar)
Third, if you need the toolbar to be elsewhere, you can create your own custom UIView that looks like a toolbar (spans the width of the screen) and add the search bar to that. You can even make this new toolbar of yours a custom class so it's reusable throughout your program.
Cheers!
I've been trying to add a UINavigationBar programmatically to my UITableViewController view. I know I can simply embed the UITableViewController to add a navigation bar, but I don't want to do that due to the way my app is setup.
I have tried the following:
var navBar: UINavigationBar = UINavigationBar(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 320.0, 64.0))
navBar.delegate = self
self.view.addSubview(navBar)
self.view.bringSubviewToFront(navBar)
However, the UINavigationBar just sits on the tableview (covering the first row) and scrolls with it.
The only way I have managed to make it stay (statically) at the top is to add it to self.tableView.backgroundView. Whilst this stays in position as the tableView scrolls, the tableView runs over the top of it, instead of underneath!
Can someone please shed some light on the view hierarchy here and tell me where I should be adding it?
I have a view controller in my app that has a navigation bar dragged on it in the storyboard. It was working fine in the iOS 6 but in iOS 7 it look like this:
The status bar and the navigation bar should no collide with each other. I have seen a lot of such questions on the stack overflow but they didn't of much help to me.
Some questions say that i should use this "self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;" but it didn't work. Some say i should remove the navigation bar and embed it inside the navigation controller that i cannot do due to the way my program is implemented. Some solutions suggests to use the view bounds and all but it didn't work for me as well.
What is the one thing that can help me resolve this issue. Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: I have embedded the view controller inside a uinavigation controller. Removed the navigation bar that was earlier manually added in it. Now it looks ok in the storyboard but when i run it, it shows the following:
It is showing text from another view controller that is currently behind it that is its parent view controller. Means its transparent now. Can anyone point out what i am doing wrong?
The latest version of the iOS has brought many visual changes and from a developer's point of view, the navigation and status bar are two noticeable changes.
The status bar is now transparent and navigation bar behind it shows through. The navigation bar image can even be extended behind the status bar.
First of all, if you are a beginner and have just started iOS development and are confused the way status bar and navigation bar is working, you can simply go through a blog post HERE that i found very useful. It has all the information related to navigation and status bar in iOS 7.
Now coming to the answer of your question. First of all i can see two different problems. One is that your status bar and navigation bar are both kind of colliding with each other as shown by you in the question with an image.
PROBLEM: Well the problem is that your have earlier dragged a navigation bar in your view controller which was working in iOS 6 correctly but with the arrival of iOS 7 SDK, this approach is resulting in status bar and navigation bar overlapping with each other.
SOLUTION to First Problem: You can either use UIBarPositionTopAttached or you can use view bounds and frames, i can also suggest and link you to Apple's documentation and bla bla bla but that would take some time for you to solve the issue.
The best and the most easiest way to solve this issue is to just embed your view controller inside a navigation controller and thats it. You can do it by just selecting the view controller and going to Editor > Embed In > Navigation Controller. (If there is any content on your old navigation bar, you can first drag it down, embed the view controller in navigation controller and then move the bar buttons on the new navigation bar and then delete the old navigation bar)
SOLUTION to Second Problem: This solution is for your specific question that you have mentioned in the update and is not for the general public reading this. As you can see that navigation and status bar is not visible and a transparent area is showing the parent view controller. I am not really use why you are facing this issue but most probably because of some third party library like ECSlidingView or any other is involved. You can select this view controller in your storyboard and set the background color of the view to be the same as your navigation bar. This will stop showing the parent view controller behind and your navigation bar and status bar will start showing. Now you can cover the rest of your view controller with text view or what ever your are using in it.
Hope this helps!
The navigation bar is too close to the status bar because starting in iOS 7, the status bar is more of an overlay over the whole view controller's view. Since your navigation bar is at (0, 0), the status bar will show on top of the navigation bar. To solve this, simply move the navigation bar down (or, as others have said), create a constraint between the navigation bar and the topLayoutGuide.
When you do that, you will see that there is now a 20 point gap between the navigation bar and the top of the screen. That's because you just moved the navigation bar down 20 points. "But UINavigationController can do it right!" Absolutely, and it does so by implementing UIBarPositioningDelegate on your view controller. This is a one-method protocol that should be implemented like this:
- (UIBarPosition)positionForBar:(id<UIBarPositioning>)bar {
return UIBarPositionTopAttached;
}
After adding your view controller as the delegate for the navigation bar, you'll notice the navigation bar is still shifted down 20 points, but its background will extend up underneath the status bar, just like in UINavigationController.
Another thing you're seeing is that the navigation bar is translucent, meaning anything underneath the navigation bar will be visible to some extent. The translucent property on UINavigationBar is set to YES by default on iOS 7. Before iOS 7, the default was NO.
you can simply do this:
1) add a constrain between the Navigation Bar and Top Layout Guide (select navigationBar, hold ctrl key and go to Bottom Layout Guide, unhold ctrl key)
2) select vertical spacing:
3) set constant to 0:
Result:
UPDATE
In your AppDelegate file you can add this:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool
{
// Prevent Navigationbar to cover the view
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false
}
I suggest you in your viewDidLoad method you try:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
(by default it is yes now)
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UINavigationBar_Class/Reference/UINavigationBar.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UINavigationBar/translucent
This works for me i hope you also have same luck :).
Add below code in your view.
-(void) viewDidLayoutSubviews
{
CGRect tmpFram = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame;
tmpFram.origin.y += 20;
self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame = tmpFram;
}
It basically change location of navigation bar.
This is new feature with IOS7. Instead of staring at 20 px navigation bar in IOS7 staring at 0 px. As a solution shift the whole view downwards to 20 px or you can use image for navigation bar with height 64px.
In case it still helps someone, this is what worked for me for moving the Navigation Bar little bit down in ios 7 and above:
-(void)viewWillLayoutSubviews
{
float iosVersion = 7.0;
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= iosVersion) {
// iOS 7+
CGRect viewFrame = self.view.frame;
viewFrame.origin.y += 10;
self.view.frame = viewFrame;
}
}
On a device with ios 6.1 and below the Navigation Bar will be unchanged, as it was before.
And this is what I used to make the contents of the Status Bar lighter:
-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{
return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
If your UIViewController is NOT in a UINavigationController and you're using UIStoryBoard, you can set the "iOS 6/7 Deltas" to 20 for the delta Y, for every subview that needs to be offset from the UIStatusBar.
Using Swift:
As #Scott Berrevoets said in his answer you need to implement the method positionForBar in the protocol UIBarPositioningDelegate, but as the UINavigationBarDelegate protocol implements this protocol :
public protocol UINavigationBarDelegate : UIBarPositioningDelegate {
...
}
You only need to set the delegate of the UINavigationBar you set using Storyboard and implement the method and it's done, like in this way:
class ViewController: UIViewController, UINavigationBarDelegate {
#IBOutlet weak var navigationBar: UINavigationBar!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationBar.delegate = self
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
func positionForBar(bar: UIBarPositioning) -> UIBarPosition {
return UIBarPosition.TopAttached
}
}
NOTE:
It's worth to mention if you set the position of the y-axis of the navigation bar, let's say to 40 from the top, then it will extend underneath to the top from this position, to simulate the behaviour of the UINavigationController you need to set to 20 from the top.
I hope it will help you.
First, set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in Info.plist.
Then, in AppDelegate's application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method add:
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7) {
[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
self.window.clipsToBounds = YES;
self.window.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, self.window.frame.size.width, self.window.frame.size.height-20);
self.window.bounds = CGRectMake(0, 20, self.window.frame.size.width, self.window.frame.size.height);
}
return YES;
In iOS 7 app occupies 100 % of screen size.This not a problem .
http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/09/developers-guide-to-the-ios-7-status-bar/
in earlier iOS window start after statusbar and in iOS 7 window starts from 0px in earlier version view height is 460 (iPhone 4s and earlier) and 548 (iPhone 5) but in iOS 7 view height is 480 (iPhone 4s and earlier) and 568 (iPhone 5 and later) so you have to start view arrangement after 2o px or you have to start view from 20px.
you can write below code in rootviewcontroller or in all viewcontroller for set view from 20px
#define IOS7_HEIGHT 64
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
NSString *currSysVer = [[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];
if ([currSysVer compare:#"7.0" options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)
{
CGRect frame=[self.view frame];
if (frame.origin.y!=IOS7_HEIGHT) {
frame.origin.y = IOS7_HEIGHT;
frame.size.height -= IOS7_HEIGHT;
[self.view setFrame:frame];
[self.view layoutSubviews];
}
}
}
here height is 64 because 20 for statusbar and 44 for navigationbar.
try below code it will help you. and your problem will be solved.
For the ones who are having problems implementing #Masterfego 's solution (which is also the official, but I have had problems with Xcode 6.3 and automatic constraints), this is what I did:
I have a UIViewController with an added Navigation Bar. I selected the NAvigation bar and added a height constraint of 64px. We later see a warning that the navbar will be higher (but this is what we do). Finally, you can see that the Status bar looks nice and has the same color as the navbar. :)
PS: I can't post images yet.
You can probably create constraints that are attached to the top layout guide to specify the navigation bar's position relative to the status bar. See the iOS 7 UI Transition Guide: Appearance and Behavior section for more information about using the layout guides.
it's the best answer.
But I wanted know how to use a Storyboard and dragged UINavigationBar on it.
When I implemented the delegate method, and set the return result to UIBarPositionTopAttached, it did not work.
- (void)viewDidLoad{
self.navigationbar.delegate = self;
}
- (UIBarPosition)positionForBar:(id<UIBarPositioning>)bar{
NSLog(#"Got it");
//
// CGRect frame = self.navigaitonBar.frame;
//
// frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, CGRectGetWidth(frame), CGRectGetHeight(frame));
// self.navigaitonBar.frame = frame;
//
// NSLog(#"frame %f",frame.origin.y);
return UIBarPositionTopAttached;
}
If you use Xcode 6 and Swift, you can make it:
Open to info.plist file of your app.
Add a ViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance Boolean key if it is not existing and assign value “NO”.
Add “Status bar style” key if it is not existing and select “Opaque black style” value to it.
I was facing issue when full screen ModalViewController was opening from my MainViewController, NavigationBar position was getting changed when user was coming back to MainViewController from ModalViewController.
Issue which I noticed is status bar height was not getting included when user came back to MainViewController. Please debug and check origin of your NavigationBar before and after coming back to your ViewController.
// This method will adjust navigation bar and view content.
private func adjustNavigationControllerIfNeeded() {
var frame = self.view.frame
let navigationBarHeight = self.navigationController!.navigationBar.frame.size.height
if(frame.origin.y == navigationBarHeight && !UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden) {
// If status bar height is not included but it is showing then we have to adjust
our Navigation controller properly
print("Adjusting navigation controller")
let statusBarHeight = UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame.height
frame.origin.y += statusBarHeight // Start view below navigation bar
frame.size.height -= statusBarHeight
self.view.frame = frame
self.navigationController!.navigationBar.frame.origin.y = statusBarHeight // Move navigation bar
}
}
And call it from viewWillAppear method -
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
self.adjustNavigationControllerIfNeeded()
}