Transition to UINavigationBar with transparent background image results in black flickering - ios

Question

I want to navigate from a white UINavigatinonBarto a transparent UINavigationBar.
In my root view controller, this is the setup:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.hidden = NO;
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];
It's important that it stays non translucent.
This is the setup in the second view controller:
// set title of navbar
self.title = [self.data objectForKey:#"title"];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:#{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];
//
// IMPORTANT PART: make the nav bar transaparent - no prerequisites.
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleDefault;
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = [UIImage new];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
// set custom back button
UIButton *backButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(16, 31, 22, 20)];
UIImage *backImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"backButtonDetail"];
[backButton setBackgroundImage:backImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton setTitle:#"" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton addTarget:self action:#selector(popBack) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *backButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButtonItem;
This goes almost well, except for the animation:
As you can see, the background becomes black when I animate it. I want to fade the white into the destination color. It now animates from the black background.
I tried settings a custom UIView underneath the nav bar, but that didn't work.
I'm quite lost about how to about this now and any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I recently ran into this same problem and was able to get around it by just setting the window's background color in the appDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
window.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
and if you don't already have a reference to window then
UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window.backgroundColor = ...
I found this to be the cleanest solution. Hope it helps, albeit a bit late.