Here is my setup:
App launches with a main screen that has 4 buttons. each button takes you to a new view/childview. Each child view has a back button( via navigation controller) to take you back to the main/menu screen. Easy enough. And works great. however, here is what i want to do:
Main screen has 4 buttons to 4 different views. On the main screen all you see is the main page/menu, NO TABBAR. However, when you go to any of the 4 view options a tab bar will be present that is populated with tabs to the 4 child views. AND there will also be a navigation bar if we wanted to go back to the Main menu.
So essentially: Main Menu shows NO TAB BAR. 4 child views show Tab Bar AND navigation bar. I messed around with a bunch of stuff but can't get it to work. Any thoughts about how to do this?
You can achieve this by having your storyboard look like this:
Then in YourMainMenuViewController's implementation:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:animated];
}
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:animated];
}
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
UITabBarController *tabVC = segue.destinationViewController;
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"Tab1"]) {
tabVC.selectedIndex = 0;
}
else if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"Tab2"]) {
tabVC.selectedIndex = 1;
}
else if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"Tab3"]) {
tabVC.selectedIndex = 2;
}
else if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"Tab4"]) {
tabVC.selectedIndex = 3;
}
}
Although I advise against putting a tab bar controller inside a navigation controller like this as it's kind of confusing UI.
To show navigationBar on viewWillAppear implement this
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO];
To show tabBar on viewWillAppear implement this
self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = NO;
You can set them YES to make them hidden in your menu on viewWillAppear
Hope it helps
Related
as picture : when the white controller in popping out with a interactive pop gesture , the red controller (which make the status bar hide) will show, and during the animation : the navigation bar seems to move up , and the controller's view is still in its position (not move up with navigation bar) ,so the view seems divided into two pieces in the pop out animation . how to fix it ?
In the first controller,add this code.
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
}
I knew its a duplicate. But still having an issue and even when tried with possibilities didn't work. Hence posting the same to reach a solution. Hope to get help from you guys.
The initial is embedded inside UINavigationController. For the initial (the landing view) the navigation bar must be hidden. The other views when called from the landing view - must show the navigation bar.
I'm handling the hide & show of navbar in the landing view by overriding the methods of the view as follows:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
// Hiding the navigationbar hidden for the first page
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}
// Even tried animated:NO & animated:animated
- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
// Showing the navigationbar hidden for the first page
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
}
While the app loads initially, the nav bar is in hidden state (as expected & working fine). When coming back to the landing view from the child view controller, the nav bar gets hidden after some seconds - the landing view gets loaded on to the ui screen.
I also tried using the navigationcontroller delegate method in landing view: navigationController: willShowViewController: animated:. But unable to reach the solution that i need.
Hence i provided the navigationcontroller delegate in one of my childviewcontroller and checked whether the childcontroller when popped is not in viewcontrollers of the navigationcontroller using if condition. When yes, then i provided the hide option of the navigationbar. but also failed to have the solution.
During surfed, there was a solution to handle with viewanimation. I tried and that too failed.
Again surfed, the solution provided across is to handle the similar issue with viewwillappear & viewwilldisappear. I'm blinked since the way i'm doing is similar to the proposed way. Even then unable to reach a solution.
FYI.. I'm using Xcode 6.3 and deployment target is 6.0 onwards. I'm using storyboard to manage views.
Please help me sort the issue... App loads is hiding the nav bar in landing page. But when landing page is loaded back from a child view then the nav bar gets hidden only after the landing page loaded on to the ui. I do need to get hidden of the nav bar as like when app loads, when the child view pops and the landing view gets loaded on the top of the controller.
If you want to hide navigation bar in the second view then don't try to manage in viewWillAppear and viewWillDisappear because I have faced a lot of problems by trying like that and it also effected the constraints. Just use delegate for navigation controller in appDelegate it is working fine for me.
self.navigationController.delegate = self;
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
if ([viewController isKindOfClass:[LoginViewController class]])
{
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:animated];
} else {
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:animated];
}
}
Use this method:
[navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
So, if you are in some view controller:
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
More clarifications:
UINavigationController has a property navigationBarHidden, that allows you to hide/show navigation bar for whole nav controller.
Let's look at the next hierarchy:
--UINavigationController
----UIViewController1
----UIViewController2
----UIViewController3
Each of three UIViewController will have nav bar since they are in UINavigationController. For example, you want to hide bar into the second (actually it doesn't matter in which one), then write into UIViewController2:
-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES]; //it hides
}
-(void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO]; // it shows
}
Overwrite the delegate method in your custom UINavigationController class:
-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[self setNavigationBarHidden:NO];
if ([viewController isKindOfClass:[SomeViewController class]])
{
[self setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
}
}
One advantage for putting it in your UINavigationController class is that you don't clutter your UIViewController class with code
Tested and works.
UPDATE
Create a UINavigationController subclass: f.e. MyNavigationController
In AppDelegate.h:
#import "MyNavigationController.h"
#property (nonatomic) MyNavigationController *navigationController;
Then initialise it in AppDelegate.m:
-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
//Probably some more code here
self.navigationController = [[MyNavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:yourRootViewController];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navigationController;
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Then overwrite the delegate method in your custom UINavigationController class
I have little to no experience with storyboards so not really sure how to setup a custom UINavigationController, but this is how I do it in code.
Here's another SO post how to create a custom UINavigationController to use with storyboards.
Scenario
I have an app with a navigation controller. When the navigation controller pushes another controller onto the stack, in the upper left corner of the screen it shows the back button "<(title of the last view controller)".
What I need
I need something like (pseudo code)...
-(void)detectedBackButtonWasPushed {
NSLog(#"Back Button Pressed");
//Do what I need done
}
Question
Because this button is created by the navigation controller and I did not create this button in storyboards, how do I get the back button 'hooked up' to a method like this?
examples of what Ive tried for Oleg
-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
UIViewController *vc = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"notification"];
if (viewController == vc) {
NSLog(#"BACK BUTTON PRESSED");
}
}
Is this how I'm supposed to do it? Cause this doesn't work.
Use viewWillDisappear to detect this.
-(void) viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
if ([self.navigationController.viewControllers indexOfObject:self]==NSNotFound)
{
[self backButtonPressed];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}
-(void)backButtonPressed
{
NSLog(#"YEA");
}
Previously, I have solved this by setting the navigationBar leftItem to be a back button with a custom selector that dismisses the view along with whatever else it needed to do.
I might also suggest looking at the back button item and adding a target:self that is called on touch.
I'm having a strange graphical issue in iOS 7 on both, Simulator and Device.
I call a segue from the storyboard programmatically after a cell in a table view has been pressed:
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"showTerminDetailView" sender:self];
Then I inflate some values:
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"showTerminDetailView"]) {
Termin *termin = [self termineAtDate:self.currentday][[((TerminDayTableViewTableViewController *)self.terminTableViews[3]).tableView indexPathForSelectedRow].row];
TerminDetailViewController *terminDetailViewController = segue.destinationViewController;
terminDetailViewController.termin = termin;
}
}
The problem is that the right side of the navigation bar becomes darker during the animation:
Any help is welcome!
This is normal behavior. iOS7 navigation bar is translucent by default so you can see what is beneath it. Your issue could be one of the following
The controller is set to only show beneath the navigation controller.
You have self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO; on your pushed view controller so it is changing from translucent to non translucent
You have self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone; which is again moving the content down below which will make the nav controller not have content under it
You have something showing in your pushed view controller behind the nav bar.
I have implemented a custom version of a search form that behaves a lot like a UISearchBar with a scope bar (but is actually pieced together programatically for UI reasons). The screen loads with a TextField, you tap in the TextField and the navigation bar animates up off the screen, the text field moves up and a segmented control appears for filtering results.
Anyway, that all works, but when I tap on one of the search results my code pushes a new ViewController. The problem is that new controller gets pushed without a navigation bar (because I used [[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES] when switching to the search state).
I can show the navigation bar as the new ViewController gets pushed, or even animate it in as the transition to the new ViewController appears - but all those solutions look clunky. I want it to work as if you were using a UISearchBar (actually more like the email app) in that the restored navigation bar appears to just slide in from the right as if it's part of the child view controller.
I'm hoping there'll be a simple fix... thanks
For anyone that comes to this, the solution is to make your controller the delegate of the UINavigationController, then show or hide the nav bar in your delegate methods.
Your controller needs to implement the protocol:
#interface MYSearchController() <UINavigationControllerDelegate>
Then in -(void)viewDidLoad assign your controller as the delegate:
[self navigationController].delegate = self;
Finally, implement a method like this:
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
if(viewController == self)
{
if(_searchState && ![self navigationController].navigationBarHidden)
{
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}
}
else
{
if([self navigationController].navigationBarHidden)
{
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
}
}
}