Real time blur effect for Navigation Bar
Tried the solution mentioned in the above post,
AppDelegate.swift
// Sets background to a blank/empty image
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: .Default)
// Sets shadow (line below the bar) to a blank image
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
// Sets the translucent background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.0)
// Set translucent. (Default value is already true, so this can be removed if desired.)
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = true
RootVC.swift
func addBlurEffect() {
// Add blur view
let bounds = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds as CGRect!
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .Light))
visualEffectView.frame = bounds
visualEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.FlexibleWidth, .FlexibleHeight]
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.sendSubviewToBack(visualEffectView)
// Here you can add visual effects to any UIView control.
// Replace custom view with navigation bar in above code to add effects to custom view.
}
In viewDidLoad used self.addBlurEffect.
Problem, is status bar is still not blurred, and the blur effect is restricted only to RootVC.swift.
How can I extend it to all sub VCs?
Give this a shot:
bounds.offsetInPlace(dx: 0.0, dy: -20.0)
bounds.size.height = bounds.height + 20.0
Found it here
Related
I want to set my background color fullscreen (includes navigation bar and status bar also) with gradient color. Right now, I made this by creating gradient
func setDefaultColorBackground() {
let colorTop = UIColor(hexString: "804b8a").cgColor
let colorBottom = UIColor(hexString: "42074b").cgColor
let gradientLayer = CAGradientLayer()
gradientLayer.colors = [ colorTop, colorBottom]
gradientLayer.locations = [ 0.0, 1.0]
gradientLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
self.view.layer.insertSublayer(gradientLayer, at: 0)
}
So I added layer in my view in ViewController. It works but it does't covered up the status bar and navigation bar. See this image:
I think the background only fill the view under navigation bar. Anyway, I am using .xib and load it up manually in my view controller class.
Is there any ideas how to do it? Thank you so much!
I guess to change the color of the navigation bar you have to write the code for it also something like this :
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()
or whatever color you want to provide :
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 0, green: 0/255, blue: 205/255, alpha: 1)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]
I hope it was helpful to you. Happy Coding :)
How to make the Navigation Bar and Status Bar blurred (UIBlurEffect)? When I'm by clicking on the image to scroll down (Scroll View) to other pictures, this picture (in this case with a white machine) is simply lost under the Navigation Bar, and it is necessary that this figure would be visible under the Navigation Bar with effect UIBlurEffect.
NO UIBlurEffect
I have tried so, but did not work:
func addBlurEffect() {
// Add blur view
let bounds = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds as CGRect!
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .light))
visualEffectView.frame = bounds!
visualEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.sendSubview(toBack: visualEffectView)
visualEffectView.isUserInteractionEnabled = false }
Firstly, when scrolling the picture just disappears under the Navigation Bar.
Second, Status Bar remains gray.
Bad UIBlurEffect for NavigationBar, and NO UIBlurEffect for StatusBar
In order to Status Bar not remain gray, I tried to do it, but to no avail =(
bounds.offsetBy(dx: 0.0, dy: -20.0)
bounds.size.height = bounds.height + 20.0
Also in AppDelegate (he application written in Objective-C) in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions, I tried to add it all remains the same without any changes:
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc]init] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setShadowImage:[[UIImage alloc]init]];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.0f green:0.0f blue:0.0f alpha:0.0f]];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTranslucent:YES];
Please help solve the problem, I mess around with it for 3 days.
Sorry for my bad English.
Setting the background image to the navigation bar does the trick. In swift 3 the below code works for me.
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .light))
visualEffectView.frame = (self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds.insetBy(dx: 0, dy: -10).offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: -10))!
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
output:
Going off #Vignesh answer it's a bad idea to hard code -10. For example this won't be sized correctly for iphone X.
// Find size for blur effect.
let statusBarHeight = UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame.size.height
let bounds = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds.insetBy(dx: 0, dy: -(statusBarHeight)).offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: -(statusBarHeight))
// Create blur effect.
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .light))
visualEffectView.frame = bounds
// Set navigation bar up.
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.sendSubview(toBack: visualEffectView)
I would also recommend creating a subclass of UINavigationController as it's good practice. Something like this:
final class func MyCustomNavigation: UINavigationController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
// Find size for blur effect.
let statusBarHeight = UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame.size.height
let bounds = navigationBar.bounds.insetBy(dx: 0, dy: -(statusBarHeight)).offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: -(statusBarHeight))
// Create blur effect.
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .light))
visualEffectView.frame = bounds
// Set navigation bar up.
navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
navigationBar.sendSubview(toBack: visualEffectView)
}
}
Swift 5, iOS 13 +
You can use UINavigationBarAppearance() in AppDelegate file. And don't forget set appearance for not scrolling mode. For me it works perfect with navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles.
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground()
appearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
appearance.backgroundEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: .light) // or dark
let scrollingAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
scrollingAppearance.configureWithTransparentBackground()
scrollingAppearance.backgroundColor = .white // your view (superview) color
UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = appearance
UINavigationBar.appearance().scrollEdgeAppearance = scrollingAppearance
UINavigationBar.appearance().compactAppearance = scrollingAppearance
return true
}
Also you can check this link with test project https://github.com/leningradspb/BlurNavigationBar
Swift 3
Thanks to #Vignesh 's answer and #Romain Caron 's comment, I combined your code and the following code works for me in Swift 3
let visualEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: .light))
visualEffectView.frame = (self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds.insetBy(dx: 0, dy: -10).offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: -10))!
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(visualEffectView)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.sendSubview(toBack: visualEffectView)
Here is my Objective-C code for this same thing, and it includes support for the iPhone X's extra-large navigation bar.
UIVisualEffectView *fxView = [[UIVisualEffectView alloc] initWithEffect:[UIBlurEffect effectWithStyle:UIBlurEffectStyleLight]];
[fxView setFrame:CGRectOffset(CGRectInset(self.navigationController.navigationBar.bounds, 0, -12), 0, -60)];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:YES];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarPosition:UIBarPositionAny barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar insertSubview:fxView atIndex:1];
I am using the below code to set the gradient colour to navigationBar. But after applying the gradient colour my table view cell scrolls back to the navigationBar and content of the top cell is bit visible back to the navigationBar.
let gradient: CAGradientLayer = CAGradientLayer()
let navigationBar = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.bounds
let statusBar = UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarFrame
let gradientBounds = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, (navigationBar?.size.width)!+statusBar.size.width, (navigationBar?.size.height)!+statusBar.size.height)
gradient.frame = (gradientBounds)
gradient.colors = [UIColor.redColor().CGColor, UIColor.blackColor().CGColor]
gradient.locations = [0.0, 1.0]
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(gradient.bounds.size);
gradient.renderInContext(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!)
let backImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Default
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(backImage, forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
Navigation bars are translucent by default and even if they were not - that'd still be the first place to verify. Setting a solid background image doesn't make it opaque, in addition to that you'll need to set the navigation bar translucent property through code or at the Interface Builder.
I am trying to fill the status bar background color to orange using the following
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]
UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, animated: true)
However, I get a white status bar that should be filled with orange instead from following this example: Customize navigation bar appearance with swift
I am setting this up in the AppDelegate.swift file under didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method to apply it to the entire app.
I have edited my info.plist to the following: View controller-based status bar appearance => NO
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Edit: I'm not sure if it matters but the view is in a UITabBarController
Edit 2: This is happening in all the views actually, not just the UITabBarController.
Edit 3: Thanks #Utsav Parikh
I am adding a view now on top of the status bar and it for a brief moment while the app loads the status bar is orange but, once it finishes loading it gets pushed OFF the view and replaced with the generic white status bar.
Why would this be happening?
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor=UIColor.orangeColor()
self.window!.rootViewController!.view.addSubview(view)
Edit for Swift 3:
with UITabBarController
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = .orange
self.view.addSubview(view)
Without embedded controllers
I realize some people come here not only for the status bar, but actually the navigation bar, so I learned a few tricks along the way to do it without any embedded controllers:
Add this method in your AppDelegate.swift and call it in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
func customizeAppearance() {
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
let tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = tintColor
}
Edit for Swift 3:
With UITabBarController
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = .orange
self.view.addSubview(view)
Without embedded controllers
I realize some people come here not only for the status bar, but actually the navigation bar, so I learned a few tricks along the way to do it without any embedded controllers:
Add this method in your AppDelegate.swift and call it in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
func customizeAppearance() {
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
let tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = tintColor
}
Thanks to #Utsav I added the following subview to my UITabBarController and this seems to be working now:
let view = UIView(frame:
CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, height: 20.0)
)
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
self.view.addSubview(view)
The UITabBarController doesn't seem to play well in AppDelegate. If anyone has a better way let me know but, as of now this is the solution I have come around to.
Add this code in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in AppDelegate
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor=UIColor.orangeColor()
self.window.rootViewController.view.addSubview(view)
Hope it helps you....!!!
This is how I did it without adding a view in a VC with in a NavBarController
I wanted the color of the status bar to be the same as the VC view color so I just wrote:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.grayColor()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.clipsToBounds = true
}
Try it.
I think your last line is reverting your changes, try this:
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, animated: true)
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
nav?.tintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]
}
After what u did in info.plist to the following: View controller-based status bar appearance => NO.
Add this code in AppDelegate.swift file under didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = uicolorFromHex(0xffffff)
navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = uicolorFromHex(0x2E9AFE)
// change navigation item title color
navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]
UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent
and u can select any hex code for ur choice of color..!! Enjoy..!!
Sorry, forgot to use hexcode you will be needing this also so add this code anywhere in your AppDelegate.swift:
func uicolorFromHex(rgbValue:UInt32)->UIColor {
let red = CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16)/256.0
let green = CGFloat((rgbValue & 0xFF00) >> 8)/256.0
let blue = CGFloat(rgbValue & 0xFF)/256.0
return UIColor(red:red, green:green, blue:blue, alpha:1.0)
}
Simon's answer in swift 3
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = .orange
self.view.addSubview(view)
There is one other way I know which uses private api. This has some benefits when orientation changes and keyboard is presented and view move up. I've used it and was lucky every time (app was released in the app store).
func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(color: UIColor) {
guard let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKeyPath: "statusBarWindow.statusBar") as? UIView else { return }
statusBar.backgroundColor = color
}
Swift 3:
In your AppDelegate.swift file paste the code bellow into your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 255/255, green: 130/255, blue: 0/255, alpha: 1.0) // Organge colour in RGB
self.window?.rootViewController?.view.addSubview(view)
This works fine for me!
There is a main difference in tintColor and changing the background color of UINavigationBar. The best way in my opinion is apply a background image, made by 1 pixel square image of just one color.
Like that:
let tabbarAndNavBarBkg = UIImage(named: "nav_tab")
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(tabbarAndNavBarBkg, forBarMetrics: .Default)
Or you can create a category on UIColor to return a UIImage given a UIColor instance, in objC:
+ (UIImage *) imageWithColor:(UIColor*) color {
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
UIImage *colorImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return colorImage;
}
UINavigationBar.appereance() works for upcoming viewControllers, but not the currently displayed rootViewController. To achieve this I have added the following to my didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = myColor
let navigationController = UIApplication.sharedApplication().windows[0].rootViewController as! UINavigationController
navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = myColor
navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : myTextColor]
navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = false
navigationController.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
I try to set my navigation bar transparent regarding a image below this, something like the following image :
I tried the solution in transparent navigation bar ios but I don't get the above result, I get only the icon on the left but without any color in the navigation bar, completely transparent. But if I set a background color the transparency disappears at all.
There is any way to set a color in the navigation bar and make it transparent??
Thanks in advance.
just checked on the 8.1 simulator and got very similar result to your picture
let bar:UINavigationBar! = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
bar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
bar.shadowImage = UIImage()
bar.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.3, blue: 0.5, alpha: 0.3)
main point here is background color with alpha.
Check attached image, maybe I missed something?
To set this style globally, use the UIAppearance APIs. In AppDelegate's application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: add the following code:
// Sets background to a blank/empty image
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: .Default)
// Sets shadow (line below the bar) to a blank image
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
// Sets the translucent background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.3, blue: 0.5, alpha: 0.3)
// Set translucent. (Default value is already true, so this can be removed if desired.)
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = true
Have you tried setting the navigationBar's alpha property? In your root view controller to the navigation controller...
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setAlpha:0.3f];
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
If the above code is not working then set edgesForExtendedLayout to all.
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = .all