I'm using a UINavigationBar in a regular UIViewController (not a UINavigationController) and updating the contents of the navigation bar using setItems:animated, pushNavigationItem:animated and popNavigationItem:animated, with animated set to YES.
Works fine, except that I would like the crossfade animation of the navigation bar, rather than the built-in animation which "pushes" the previous bar to left or right.
So far the only way I can see how to do this would be to manually set the title, left and right contents of the bar, using setLeftBarButtonItems:animated, setRightBarButtonItems:animated and probably a custom view for the title with setTitleView so that I can do the crossfade.
Anybody has a better solutions to my problem?
Just tried this and it worked:
[UIView transitionWithView:self.navBar duration:2.0f options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve animations:^{
myNavigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = newLeftItem;
myNavigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = newRightItem;
myNavigationItem.title = #"My New Title";
} completion:nil];
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I am getting a really strange animation behaviour when pushing another view controller that has the bottom bar hidden with hidesBottomBarWhenPushed. The first thread I found was that: Strange animation on iOS 7 when using hidesBottomBarWhenPushed in app built targeting <= iOS 6 but as my application is only build and run on iOS7 it is not the case for my problem.
Please see the following video that shows the problem (look in the top right corner):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66066789/ios7.mov
This strange animation shadow only occurs when hidesBottomBarWhenPushed is true.
How can I fix that?
Solved my problem:
self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden=YES;
In the second view controller is the way to go.
Leo Natan is correct. The reason for this blur effect is because the entire Tab Bar Controller is being animated underneath the navigation controller, and behind that view is a black UIWindow by default. I changed the UIWindow background color to white and that fixed the issue.
hidesBottomBarWhenPushed seems to work great with UITabBars (iOS 7/8).
Turn off the Translucent property of Navigation Bar in Storyboard.
In My Case, I had TabBarViewController with UINavigationController in each tabs & faced similar issue. I used,
nextScreen.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
pushViewToCentralNavigationController(nextScreen)
It works fine when nextScreen is UITableViewController subclass & applied auto layout. But, It does not work fine when nextScreen is UIViewController. I found it depends on nextScreen auto layout constraints.
So I just updated my currentScreen with this code -
override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
self.tabBarController?.tabBar.hidden = true
}
For more details - https://stackoverflow.com/a/39145355/2564720
An elegant way of doing this, while keeping transparency, is to add this to the root UIViewController:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.35f animations:^{
self.tabBarController.tabBar.alpha = 1.0f;
}];
}
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.35f animations:^{
self.tabBarController.tabBar.alpha = 0.0f;
}];
}
This way you'll get a nice fade-in/fade-out animation of the tab bar.
What if in the second view controller in viewWillAppear you put
[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:YES animated:NO];
I'm running into problems reconfiguring the UINavigationBar on iOS 7 and 8 when transitioning between views.
My application currently contains the following UIViewController flow:
VC1 --> VC2 --> VC3
In this flow
VC1 is the home screen and has an opaque UINavigationBar
VC2 has a translucent UINavigationBar
VC3 goes back to having an opaque UINavigationBar
The problem I've been running into is that the transitions between these views are all very sloppy looking. To start with I tried the following:
in VC2
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
// configure appearance
[self.navigationController.navigationBar configureTranslucentAppearance];
}
And in VC1 and VC3
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
// configure appearance
[self.navigationController.navigationBar restoreDefaultAppearance];
}
Here are the implementations of the two helper functions listed above:
- (void)restoreDefaultAppearance {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
[self setTitleTextAttributes:#{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor JTTextNavBar]}];
[self setTintColor:[UIColor JTTextNavBar]];
[self setBarTintColor:[UIColor JTBackgroundNavBarWithAlpha:1.0]];
[self setBackgroundImage:nil forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor JTBackgroundNavBarWithAlpha:1.0]];
[self setShadowImage:[UIImage navigationBarShadowImage]];
[self setTranslucent:NO];
}
- (void)configureTranslucentAppearance {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
[self setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[self setShadowImage:[UIImage new]];
[self setTranslucent:YES];
}
This is the most basic way of handling this transition. It has the following visual artefacts:
When going from VC1 --> VC2 the moment you begin the transition the navigation bar turns black. The animation completes normally
When going from VC2 --> VC1 the nav bar instantly changes to the application default colour before the segue has time to complete.
When going from VC2 --> VC3 the navigation bar instantly goes from translucent to the app nav bar color and then menu items and VC body animate in.
When going from VC3 --> VC2 the nav bar instantly turns black and remains this way until the segue is complete.
None of these transitions look good at all. Ideally I would like the views to transition smoothly along with their new UINavigationBar but the only way I've seen to do this successfully is to manually add a toolbar to each xib.
Any suggestions? Apologies if this description is confusing :(
Edit: Added cropped images of the UINavigationBar and top portion of UIViewController for each of the listed transitions.
I finally found a decent solution!
There doesn't appear to be a proper way to smoothly transition from an opaque to transparent UINavigationBar BUT you can transition smoothly from a view controller with a visible status bar to one that has a hidden status bar.
This opens up a possible workaround which is to add the following in the viewWillAppear of VC2 from above:
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
Once you have that, manually add a UINavigationBar to your xib and configure it to be transparent (and add all necessary UIBarButtonItem and views).
If everything is hooked up properly transitioning from VC1 to VC2 will hide the UINavigationBar at the same speed as the view transition and VC2 will show up with it's embedded UINavigationBar
Note: To make this work properly you'll have to make sure that in the viewWillAppear of View Controllers that can be accessed from VC2 you reset the UINavigationBar to be visible (if necessary) via:
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
TL;DR - manually add a UINavigationBar to your transparent nav bar view controller and in its viewWillAppear hide the default one via setNavigationBarHidden:animated:
The black color you're seeing is the background color of the UINavigationController's view. One way to minimize seeing it is to manipulate the background color of that view to the color of the outgoing / incoming view controller's view. This works well if you're working with solid colors. Another approach is to extend your views behind the opaque navigation bar using UIViewController.extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = YES;
Set the UIWindow background color to your Navigation bar's tintColor.
always use Translucent, plus add an uiview with a color below it and animate it's alpha?
I've struggled with a nearly identical problem. There really aren't any smooth transitions using either a nav bar or toolbar as a blur. The best option that I've found* is to make an image out of the view and then use that image for the transition. Especially if you just need it for transitions, it's just about the cheapest option that still provides a great UI/UX.
*The one caveat is that some of the UI effects in a nav bar and toolbar don't show up when you take a snapshot, screenshot, or rasterize a UIView as an image. This is negligible if used for a transition.
You can create your own navigation bar using just a UIView and that way you have complete control over its appearance, layout, fading etc.
I gave up using UINavigationBar a while ago as it can be a pain to work with, as you are discovering, and now I never ever use it.
I have a root view controller which has a UIView which represents the navigation bar. If I want to do something like add a back button, change the color, show the navigation bar or hide it, change the transparency, etc. that is all controlled by the RVC and other view controllers call methods on the RVC to change the navigation bar depending upon their appearance requirements.
The RVC has a container view which is the full size of the controller view and the other view controllers get loaded into that.
A little bit of configuration to get everything set up, but once done its a structure that can be used in every project that uses a navigation bar very quickly.
So I struggled with this too.
Unfortunately I didn't have any success adding my own navigation bar via the storyboard. Instead, (and I warn you this is hacky) I add a view in the ViewController with the opaque navigation bar that has a negative margin and extends under the navigation bar.
When the ViewController with the transparent navigation bar is pushed the bar then immediately becomes transparent but due to the identically coloured view I have place directly behind it the change isn't noticeable. Et voila.
The code I have is pretty basic and written in C# (Xamarin) but for reasons of completeness....
var backing = new UIView(new CGRect(0, -68, this.View.Frame.Width, 64f));
backing.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Green;
this.View.AddSubview(backing);
Change background color work for me
window?.backgroundColor = Color.red.toUIColor()
I have one more solution..for the ones who are now refactoring the project and cant add navigation bar everywhere.. This is not a perfect solution just like #alexgophermix one. But its not bad either:
let transition = CATransition()
transition.duration = 0.6
transition.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: kCAMediaTimingFunctionLinear)
transition.type = kCATransitionFade
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
navigationController?.navigationBar.layer.add(transition, forKey: nil)
navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = .clear
I am setting my nav bar in viewDidLoad() so this works everywhere and gives a slight different transition. In my case I was setting clear backgrounds somewhere and rest a gradient image. So this small change goes well for everywhere. This transition is not much noticeable but neither looks bad :)
In my case, the black I was seeing was the navbar's background image. Instead of setting it to nil, I set it to match the background color of the view behind the transparent navbar inside viewWillAppear:
let image = UIImage(color: .white)
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(image, for: .default)
Then, inside willMove and viewWillDisappear I reverted it back to the original color.
YPNavigationBarTransition is a configureable framework animating navigation bars.
YPNavigationBarTransition uses two fake navigationbars (UIToolBar indeed) to simulate bar transitions while making the real navigationbar transparent.
Subclass your own UINavigationController and embed transitioncenter in it like YPNavigationController
Implement YPNavigationBarProtocol for your content controllers respectively.
Done.
A complete demo is include in the repo, checkout it for more details.
I'm trying to put a searchbar inside a TableView which is a subview of a simple ViewController. The result compiled it's this: Screenshot
Now everything works and I can search correctly. The problem is the visual glitch I had when I search something: Screenshot
What I want it's just that the search bar goes to the top of the screen or better that my header don't disappear.
Set the frame of the searchBar with animation just to the top of the screen when search bar start begin editing (when keyboard appears). just like that-
-(void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{
CGRect frame=searchBar.frame;
frame.origin.y=0;
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^{
searchBar.frame=frame;
}];
}
Here's the situation:
I am making an app for iPad w/ iOS 6 using Autolayout along with UINavigationController. What I am trying to do is:
Segue from one view controller to the next with a standard push segue.
When I arrive at the new view controller, hide the nav bar with animation.
As the nav bar hides, I want my view to not shift at all. In fact, I want my view to effectively be drawn underneath the nav bar from the beginning, so I'm left with no shifting or movement of content and no black bars. For reference, this is what happens in the Amazon Kindle app when you go into a book.
With my current code, the contents of my view shift up to fill in the void left by the UINavigationBar.
I've tried force-setting the frame of my UIViewController's view and my UINavigationController's view to the entire iPad screen in the viewWillAppear method of my viewcontroller but no dice. I've experimented w/ Constraints in Autolayout but that also didn't get me to where I wanted to go.
Any help you can give would be great!
Try following before animating the navigation bar:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.alpha = 0.99f;
I didn't try this but this should work.
Looks like you need to add custom navigation bar in your new view and animate it to disappear.
I think, hiding original Navigation bar of Navigation Controller without shifting the view is not possible.
Rather add UINavigationBar to xib file, bind it to IBOutlet uiNavigationBar and try following code
-(void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
}
- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3f delay:0.0f options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut animations:^{
CGRect f = self.uiNavigationBar.frame;
f.origin = CGPointMake(f.origin.x, f.origin.y - 44);
self.uiNavigationBar.frame = f;
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
NSLog(#"done");
}];
}
I am using the code snippet from Tito to add a custom button to my tab bar:
https://github.com/tciuro/CustomTabBar
(Subclassing UITabbarController and adding a custom button using
// .. created a UIButton *button
[self.view addSubview:button];
)
This works great with my storyboard-based app except for the case of a subview within a navigation controller with the option "Hides bottom bar on push" enabled.
This hides the tab bar as promised, but not the custom button.
Seems like the button should be added as a subview to the tab bar itself?
I tried this ugly code which did not even make the button show up:
for(UIView *view in self.view.subviews)
{
if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
{
[view addSubview:button];
break;
}
}
Any ideas?
UPDATE:
My solution:
In my ApplicationDelegate i define the following methods, which i call whenever needed in the viewWillAppear or viewWillDisappear methods:
-(void)hideCenterButton:(BOOL)animated
{
if(animated){
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3
delay:0.0f
options:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear
animations:^{
CGRect frame = self.centerButton.frame;
frame.origin.x = -100;
self.centerButton.frame = frame;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
}];
}
}
-(void)showCenterButton:(BOOL)animated
{
if(animated){
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.35
delay:0.0f
options:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear
animations:^{
CGRect frame = self.centerButton.frame;
frame.origin.x = (self.view.superview.frame.size.width / 2) - (self.centerButton.frame.size.width / 2);
self.centerButton.frame = frame;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
}];
}
}
I had to set the animation's duration to 0.35s to get a smooth effect in harmony with the tab bar.
Why don't you make button your tabbar's part.
tabBarController.tabBar.addSubView(yourButton)
everything would be solve. cheers!
One easy way to handle this would be to create an instance of the button in .h of your file.
UIButton *customTabButton;
When calling the hides bottom bar on push set the button property to hidden and reset it again in the other views if the bottom bar is visible.
shareFbButton.hidden=YES;
You can check this is the viewDidLoad of all the files and put this line of code if needed to make sure you are displaying the button and hiding the button on all the pages you need.
if(self.tabBarController.tabBar.isHidden){
// set or reset the custom button visibility here
}
This is one way.
I think there are 2 ways you can got with this.
1) try to get the button into a view that is above the old top view controller and the tab bar BUT below the new top view controller that is pushed.
2) animate away the button when the new view controller is pushed.
The first will require mucking with the iOS proprietary view hierarchy which is undocumented, unsupported and could change anytime.
The second will be a matter of making the animation appear smooth enough for your user not to notice. It's not entirely a matter of behaving perfect, just appearing appropriately.
I would personally recommend an animation of the the button disappearing (animate it's alpha to 0) and reappearing based on if your view controller that goes over the tab bar is appearing or disappearing.
The animation for a navigation is (I believe) 0.3 seconds. If the button is in the middle of the tab bar, you'll likely want it invisible as the animating in view controller reaches it (if not sooner) so something between 0.1 and 0.15 seconds could be used to animate it out.
Now this does not make the button behave exactly the same as the tab bar, but with the quickness of the transition being so short, it will be unnoticeable really to the user.
Now just to provide a question for you to ask yourself. Why do you need to push a view controller that overlaps the tab bar? Why is that more desirable/necessary than presenting a modal view controller? If you can strongly argue for it, keep at it and good luck, if it's not necessary however, you may be able to achieve the experience you want with a modal view controller.
Check this one to put a button on the UITabBar. See if it works after with hidesBottoBarWhenPushed.