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
}
}
Related
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.
In my project I have a button on the bottom right side of the screen and i added another uiviewcontroller to the storyboard, did control-drag to the uiviewcontroller I wanted as the popover, then set that viewcontroller size to (300, 300) and checked 'use preferred explicit size'. When I load the app and click the button, the entire screen gets covered by the "popover". I also tried to go into the popoverViewController's .m file and set the size but that didn't work either.
Any ideas?
Edit: Since it looks like I have to have it be full screen that is fine however I am still running into some other problems I was having earlier. My popup screen will come up and I make the background black and alpha as .5 to make it see through however it'll do the animation, then once the animation is finished the screen will go from .5 opacity to completely black and the only thing I can see is the battery icon thing.
The OP uses Objective-C. This answer presents code in swift. Converting swift to Objective-C should be easy.
In the newly added ViewController, under “Simulated Metrics” change “Size” to “Freeform” and “Status Bar” to “None.”
Under “Simulated Size” change your view’s height and width to the actual size you want your popover’s content to be.
Create a segue to the newly added VC. Use segue type as "Present As Popover" and give a name for the segue, for example "popoverSegue".
In the ViewConroller from which this segue is to be triggered, add the UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate protocol.
class ViewController: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
}
Override the prepareForSegue function to catch your popover segue. Set the modalPresentationStyle to .Popover to explicitly state that you want a popover and then assign the delegate property of the view’s popoverPresentationController to self:
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
if segue.identifier == "popoverSegue" {
let popoverViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! UIViewController
popoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
popoverViewController.popoverPresentationController!.delegate = self
}
}
Implement the adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController function to tell your app that you really want that popover presentation and will accept no substitutions:
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.None
}
Following these, I could get a popup on iPhone which is not full screen but the size set for the ViewController.
Source: iPad Style Popovers on the iPhone with Swift
Thanks to Bharat for the great answer, I personally use a UIStoryboardSegue that does pretty much the same thing. That way, I can change the class of the segue in the storyboard, have what I want, and not pollute my controllers:
class AlwaysPopupSegue : UIStoryboardSegue, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate
{
override init(identifier: String?, source: UIViewController, destination: UIViewController)
{
super.init(identifier: identifier, source: source, destination: destination)
destination.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.popover
destination.popoverPresentationController!.delegate = self
}
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.none
}
}
Swift 3-5 version
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "SEGUE_IDENTIFIER" {
let popoverViewController = segue.destination as! YourViewController
popoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.popover
popoverViewController.popoverPresentationController!.delegate = self
}
}
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.none
}
Swift 4 Version
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "SegueIdentifier" {
let popoverViewController = segue.destination
popoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
popoverViewController.presentationController?.delegate = self
}
}
Don't forget to add
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.none
}
On iPhone you can creat a custom view controller that can manage all the popovers. Since each view controller has its own navigation controller, you can add a new view controller to the app.window.rootviewcontroller as a du view and bring all to front.
If you didn't want to write your own, you can use something like this for instance: http://cocoapods.org/pods/FPPopover
This is Swift 5 code, some/most of the above mentioned solutions are all valid. This is an effort to present whole solution. This example supposes you are using a xib for popover view controller but this would work otherwise as well, say, in prepare for segue. Here's a complete code:
Presenting ViewController:
let popoverVC = PopoverVC(nibName: "popoverVC", bundle: nil)
popoverVC.completionHandler = { [unowned self] (itemIndex : Int?) in
if let itemIndex = itemIndex
{
// Do completion handling
}
}
popoverVC.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 200, height: 60)
popoverVC.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
if let pvc = popoverVC.popoverPresentationController {
pvc.permittedArrowDirections = [.down]
pvc.delegate = self
pvc.sourceRect = button.frame
pvc.sourceView = button // Button popover is presented from
present(popoverVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
This is important:
extension ViewController: UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .none
}
}
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.
I am trying to use UIPopoverPresentationController to display a popover that doesn't take up the whole screen. I've followed many different tutorials with no luck.
Here is my code. It correctly instantiates the ViewController, but it takes up the entire screen instead of just a smaller screen as I defined in preferredContentSize.
func showPopover() {
let vc = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("PopupTimePickerViewController") as PopupTimePickerViewController
vc.modalPresentationStyle = .Popover
vc.preferredContentSize = CGSizeMake(200, 100)
if let presentationController = vc.popoverPresentationController {
presentationController.delegate = self
presentationController.permittedArrowDirections = .Up
presentationController.sourceView = self.view
presentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 50)
self.presentViewController(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
Update 9/27/16 with correct answer
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController, traitCollection: UITraitCollection) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .none
}
In iPhone, you should add the following in order to present a popover.
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController!) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
// Return no adaptive presentation style, use default presentation behaviour
return .None
}
For Swift3/IOS10, looks like we need to do some thing like
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController, traitCollection: UITraitCollection) -> UIModalPresentationStyle
{
return .none
}
Adding this answer, in case, someone runs into this problem as i did when migrating to swift3/IOS10
For Swift3+/IOS10+, when dealing with iPhone:
You must add UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate the delegate at:
class YourClass: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate { ...
Then implement in this same parent class (which will show the popover) the method below.
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController, traitCollection: UITraitCollection) -> UIModalPresentationStyle
{
return .none
}
And then set the popover configuration below:
myPopover.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
myPopover.popoverPresentationController?.sourceRect = VIEWTOPOINTTHEARROW.frame
myPopover.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = self.view
myPopover.popoverPresentationController?.delegate = self
Also you may set some configuration for the popover class
class MyPopover: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//popover size
self.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 320, height: 200)
//sets the arrow of the popover to same color of background
self.popoverPresentationController?.backgroundColor = self.view.backgroundColor
}
}
The accepted answer is correct. For completeness, see Adapting Presented View Controllers to a New Style in the Apple docs:
Use the delegate’s adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController: method to specify a different presentation style than the default. When transitioning to a compact environment, the only supported styles are the two full-screen styles or UIModalPresentationNone. Returning UIModalPresentationNone tells the presentation controller to ignore the compact environment and continue using the previous presentation style. In the case of a popover, ignoring the change gives you the same iPad-like popover behavior on all devices.
Make sure that the required configurations from Presenting a View Controller in a Popover are met:
After setting the modal presentation style [of the presented view controller] to UIModalPresentationPopover, configure the following popover-related attributes:
Set the preferredContentSize property of your view controller to the desired size.
Set the popover anchor point using the associated UIPopoverPresentationController object, which is accessible from the
view controller’s popoverPresentationController property.
Set only one of the following:
Set the barButtonItem property to a bar button item.
Set the sourceView and sourceRect properties to a specific region in one of your views.
iOS 12 / Swift 4
There's also the possibility to show the popover on IPhone's as fullscreen and on IPad's as a popover.
Just return .popover for adaptivePresentationStyle():
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .popover
}
and set the popover-configuration like #mourodrigo did:
dialog.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
dialog.popoverPresentationController?.delegate = self
dialog.popoverPresentationController?.permittedArrowDirections = UIPopoverArrowDirection(rawValue: 0)
dialog.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = view
dialog.popoverPresentationController?.sourceRect = view.frame
objective-c version:
- (UIModalPresentationStyle)adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController:(UIPresentationController *)controller {
return UIModalPresentationNone;
}
I'm doing some drawing on a custom UIView canvas, and rather than having a set of buttons at the bottom of the view to allow the user to select shapes, I'd like to have the user do a long press gesture, then have a popup-type menu appear with different shapes they can choose. I don't see anything like this in xCode, though I'd assume there's something like that in iOS. I don't want the alert popup that shows up when you have low battery and notifications.
I've looked into using a UIPopoverController but I'm a bit confused about some of the other Stack Overflow questions I've read about it, and also about the documentation given by Apple.
I described the steps to achieve floating menu as shown in above image:
Create segue from the barButtonItem to the MenuViewCobtroller of type 'Present as Popover'
In the MenuViewController override the preferredContentSize as:
override var preferredContentSize : CGSize
{
get
{
return CGSize(width: 88 , height: 176)
}
set
{
super.preferredContentSize = newValue
}
}
In my case I am returning CGSize with width 100 and size 200. You can set these values so as to fit your floating menu content properly.
4. In the initial/source view controller, in the prepare(for segue: sender) method set self as popoverPresentationController delegate:
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "ShowMenuSegue" {
if let tvc = segue.destination as? MenuViewController
{
tvc.delegate = self
if let ppc = tvc.popoverPresentationController
{
ppc.delegate = self
}
}
}
}
The source view controller must comply to UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate and implement following method:
extension ViewController: UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
func adaptivePresentationStyle(for controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.none
}
}
That's it. You got the floating menu. Hopefully this will be useful.
I used Masture's method above and it worked for me (thank you!), but a couple of notes for other newbies like myself:
Make sure you put "ShowMenuSegue" (or whatever you choose) as the identifier for your segue in the Storyboard, and
I had to add
var delegate: MainViewController!
in the MenuViewController (with MainViewController being your source view controller) in order to get tvc.delegate = self to work
After you make a connection of that button with the viewController and popover as a segue you will need to prepare. Here is the following code in order to prepare for the popover segue.
func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?)
{
if let identifier = segue.identifier
{
switch identifier
{
case History.SegueIdentifier:
if let tvc = segue.destinationViewController as? TextViewController
{
if let ppc = tvc.popoverPresentationController
{
ppc.delegate = self
}
tvc.text = "\(diagnosticHistory)"
}
default: break
}
}
}
Do keep in mind that if you have an iPhone the popover will take full screen, so you can fix that using this for let's say a text that takes some particular elements.
This will fix the popover to be exactly the size of the elements you have in your text.
#IBOutlet weak var textView: UITextView!
{
didSet
{
textView.text = text
}
}
var text : String = ""
{
didSet
{
textView?.text = text
}
}
override var preferredContentSize : CGSize
{
get
{
if textView != nil && presentingViewController != nil
{
return textView.sizeThatFits(presentingViewController!.view.bounds.size)
}
else
{
return super.preferredContentSize
}
}
set {super.preferredContentSize = newValue}
}
}
I have those 2 in different view controllers but I guess it will work. You will also need to implement UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate and
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return UIModalPresentationStyle.None
}
to your first viewController.