I'm working on advance notifications in iOS 10 for our app and have been asked by our designer, if I can do blurred/semi-transparent background for ViewController's part (like on the image below):
As you can see - behind the kitten it's possible to distinguish icons below the notification.
I've been trying some dummy ideas like set View's background to Clear (or semi-transparent color), etc. - but nothing worked.
Is it feasible? If yes - how can it be implemented?
Thanks!
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I have a View in Xcode and I am developing for IOS. I want to set background of my view same as that of this pictures alert background. I have tried setting alpha but I am unable to produce same look. How to achieve this?
Insert "Visual Effect with Blur" as background of your view.
I have just finished creating my first application and would like to add some additional customisations to it. That is, in my settingsViewController I have added a switch which allows to set the colours to a nighttime mode. My questions is how can I actually get my application to do this.
Thanks in advance for your responses.
You can't expect this thing to be handled by iOS itself because its an app feature that you will have to implement.
You can change background colors to dark and all those UILabel UIButton UITextView dark colored as well to have a feature called dark mode(Dark theme) upon user selection.
This is really simple, but maybe not easy?
I'm trying to build a custom keyboard app for iOS, and so far I've made a concept work pretty well. But I really want to have the whole container/background view to be a blur view (frosted glass effect built in iOS), much like the system keyboard. It's very subtle, but I really want that effect.
Any idea how to apply it? Help!
One solution I found (which is great but not ideal) is to simply set the background color of the ViewController to transparent. By giving it a color with alpha = 0, it has the same color as the system keyboard background.
But this doesn't let you go any further in terms of transparency, so the blur is very subtle.
I'm trying to workout how to set the background of an iOS 10 today extension/widget to what looks like a default dark mode. In the image below you can see the Weather Underground today widget and it is dark. There are a few apps with a dark background and they all look like the same background/style so I'm thinking it maybe a specific dark mode that can be set in code rather than just fiddling with the view controller color/transparency - no matter how much I try to set the color and transparency manually in the story board I can't even get close to this effect.
You can't do this. The apps that look like this, are not updated for iOS 10 yet. You can see that it hasn't been updated, because it is expanded without showing the "Show less"/"Show more" button.
I'm working on an app that has a custom NSView on a NSStatusBar which performs all of the drawing when the user clicks it. But here's the problem, the color I'm currently drawing as the view's background color is not the same as the system blue color.
My app's color:
Twitter's menu item color (system):
As you clearly see, my blue color is way lighter than the system. This is the code I'm currently using (and worked perfectly on versions older than Yosemite):
[[NSColor selectedMenuItemColor] set];
NSRectFill(rect);
I've even tried color picking the menu item's color but it seems like the color is affected by the wallpaper below the menu bar.
Any ideas on how to achieve the system look?
As you said, in Yosemite, docks, status bars etc. are affected by whatever is behind them. Try enabling System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency and you'll see what your color looks like without this feature./
Here is an idea - Maybe you should use the Vibrancy effect and derive from NSVisualEffectView. I knew that I've seen a very similar thread somewhere here in the past, and it took me quite some time to find it. Here it is:
Trouble matching the vibrant background of a Yosemite NSMenuItem containing a custom view
I think Matthes' answer to that question would lead you to the resolution of your issue. Be sure to check it out. I hope it will help - Good luck and report back!