What's the best way to drag something out of a UIPopoverController, similar to how loops get dragged from the loop browser (I'm assuming it's a UIPopoverController) in Garageband on iOS? Meaning, the popover gets dismissed as soon as the user drags outside of it.
I tried implementing it via gestures, but as soon as I dismiss the popover, the gestures and therefore the dragging gets invalidated.
Is there a way to hide the popover, so I can dismiss it at the end of the drag? Or are there more elegant solutions?
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On an iPad, you can use controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet to show a centered modal on the screen. A common technique is to allow the user to dismiss the modal by clicking "outside" or "behind" it. This is covered in numerous other answers (Iphone SDK dismissing Modal ViewControllers on ipad by clicking outside of it,
Dismiss modal view form sheet controller on outside tap), usually by adding a tap gesture to the view's UIWindow.
My question is, how do I make this accessible to users in VoiceOver mode? The native action sheets allow clicks outside the sheet to dismiss, and even prompt the user, saying "double tap to dismiss popup window". How can I expose the UIWindow tap gesture in the same way?
From Apple:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/learn-voiceover-gestures-iph3e2e2281/ios
Dismiss an alert or return to the previous screen: Two-finger scrub
(move two fingers back and forth three times quickly, making a “z”).
If the modal sheet is opened, we can prompt the user to "make a z gesture" to go back.
There is basically no way to do this with the FormSheet presentation. You can use the Popover presentation, but it behaves differently in some cases.
My solution was to check UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning() and add an extra close button element to the top of FormSheet that can be clicked via voiceover. I also implemented accessibilityPerformEscape for the global escape gesture.
I have created a UIPercentDriven Transition which modally presents a popover view containing a tableView. Then, following stack exchange posts such as this one: In iOS, how to drag down to dismiss a modal?, I added a panGestureRecognizer to control the dismissal of the modal view. Then, I attempted to add functionality so that the user can continue to swipe downward once the tableview has reached the top to trigger the percent driven transition.
Here is a link to the project on github:https://github.com/KaplanAlex/modalViewDismissal
This transition was based on moving the frame of the modal view off of the screen. I also created the transition by using snapshots (which is commented out in the github project) and have the same issues. For some reason, the interactive dismissal works well unless the user moves the modal view back up after starting the dismissal and then continues to swipe upward after the modal view has reached the top of the view, the entire application seems to freeze. It doesnt crash, but also doesnt respond to taps anywhere on the screen. Even cancel button cannot be pressed. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Thanks for the help.
I want to be able to swipe down on my main view controller and have my second view controller be brought down from above. I want this transition to be interactive in the sense that you can go back and forth between VCs without having to complete the whole transition (following the finger of the user like a scrollview with paging does).
This is effect can be seen when sliding between View Controllers on the new snapchat update. When you first open the app you are on the camera screen. If you swipe in any direction (up, down, left or right) the corresponding view comes in and covers the camera screen. When you swipe between views they are all essentially covering the main view (not moving it of to the side like in many tutorials i find online which use scrollview to achieve this effect).
Essentially it would look like a vertical page view controller, but instead of moving the current view controller off the screen as the new one comes in, the new one would cover the current one until it is completely on top of it.
From what I understand, a pan gesture recognizer could do the trick.
Does anyone know how I can go about doing this. I have been searching forever and can not seem to figure it out.
I want to be able to swipe down on my main view controller and have my second view controller be brought down from above. I want this transition to be interactive
Okay, so you are describing a custom interactive transition animation. The exact details for how you implement this depend on whether you want this to be a push transition or a present (modal) transition. I assume it is to be a presentation (modal) transition.
So you will start by setting the presented view controller's transitioningDelegate. Everything takes off from there. The pan gesture recognizer will call present,
and the transitioning delegate's delegate methods will be called:
animationController(forPresented:presenting:source:)
interactionControllerForPresentation(using:)
The interaction controller that you return from the second method is responsible to responding to each change in the pan gesture by updating the "frame" of the animation (as well as the transition coordinator).
If this is for iOS 10 only, this is very easy because you can use the UIViewPropertyAnimator. It has the remarkable ability to "hurry" to the end or start of the animation when the gesture ends and you decide to complete or cancel the animation. Otherwise, you're probably best off using a UIPercentDrivenInteractiveTransition object to help you.
while I develop iOS application with swift, I wondered why apple did not support auto-dismiss keyboard function in application. This means if I implement a TextLabel on screen, I tapped that label, Keyboard appears, but did not dismissed automatically.
I thought many of application keyboards need to dismissed when users tap on outside of the keyboard screen or click 'done' button on a screen. However, basically, I have to implement keyboard dismiss function on every ViewController. And I think this is code duplication.
Anyone can explain me about apple's application method implementation philosophy and how can I wrote an reusable function, which is not duplicated function in every ViewController scheme.
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In general apps where the main function utilizes the keyboard would rather control when the keyboard dismisses themselves instead on relying on an auto feature.
Ex: For a texting app after I click the send button I would like to send another text. Then I shouldn't dismiss the keyboard.
If you are dismissing the keyboard multiple times than I would try making a view controller class that handles that and subclass it. You can observe when the keyboard is shown and add a button on top of your view so when it is clicked the keyboard dismisses using [self.view endEditing:YES];
I would I accomplish this?
On Facebook, when we tap a gallery of pictures, it shows what appears to be a Table View Controller. And when we scroll to the top or to the end of the table, the view starts to dismiss. But it only fully dismisses when we actually release the finger from the screen.
The new Apple Music App also has this feature. It shows on the screen with the controls and the album's photo (when we're playing a song). We can do a pan gesture there, along the Y axis, and the view moves with the finger. And the view doesn't dismiss until we actually release the finger from the screen.
How can I implement this behaviour? And what API's should I be looking into? Is there an example you could point me to?
Thank you!
You may want to check out UIPresentationController. I haven't used them myself, but they may be what you are looking for.