I have been trying to make the buttons' background color fixed on a .xib. Like, default background is white but when the button is clicked it is going to be blue or black and it will remain that way until another button is clicked.
I did most of the combinations with UIControlState, background color and image but nothing seems working. Background color changes for a sec and goes to default after a sec.
This is one of the combinations I tried
[self.theButton addTarget:self action:#selector(slideAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
-(void) slideAction:(UIButton *)myButton
{
[self.theButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"blue.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}
Function works but it does not update the color. I don't know if it the problem is related to .xib.
I appreciate of you can help me about the problem.
Thanks.
on that button click put following code
-(void) slideAction:(UIButton *)myButton
{
[self.theButton setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
}
and put that code for another button click
-(void) AnotherButtonAction:(UIButton *)myButton
{
[self.theButton setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
}
Please follow this method:
- (void)setBackgroundImage:(nullable UIImage *)image forState:(UIControlState)state;
Try below code
-(void)code:(UIButton *)sender
{
for (UIView* subView in self.view.subviews)
{
if ([subView isMemberOfClass:[UIButton class]])
{
[subView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
[sender setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
}
}
}
-(IBAction)firstBtnAction:(id)sender
{
[self code:sender];
}
-(IBAction)secondBtnAction:(id)sender
{
[self code:sender];
}
-(IBAction)thirdBtnAction:(id)sender
{
[self code:sender];
}
-(IBAction)fourthBtnAction:(id)sender
{
[self code:sender];
}
This is because backgroundColor is a property of UIView, as you know UIButton is a subclass of UIView.
This is important because then it is easier to understand why this property do not have States: A view do not have states. For some reason Apple decided to do dot extended the property behaviour for the buttons.
The method created in iOS to change the backgroundColor of UIButtons depending on the State is: setBackgroundImage: forState:. I know, that means you need an image for every state. A waste of space and memory.
To solve that problem I created a Category to handle backgroundColor States with UIButtons:
ButtonBackgroundColor-iOS
You can install the category as a pod.
Or do it old school way: drag into your project the folder /ButtonBackgroundColor-iOS. That’s all.
Easy to use with Objective-C
#property (nonatomic, strong) UIButton *myButton;
...
[self.myButton bbc_backgroundColorNormal:[UIColor redColor]
backgroundColorSelected:[UIColor blueColor]];
Even more easy to use with Swift:
import ButtonBackgroundColor
...
let myButton:UIButton = UIButton(type:.Custom)
myButton.bbc_backgroundColorNormal(UIColor.redColor(), backgroundColorSelected: UIColor.blueColor())
I recommend you import the pod with:
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!
pod 'ButtonBackgroundColor', '~> 1.0'
Using use_frameworks! in your Podfile makes easier to use your pods with Swift and objective-C.
IMPORTANT
I also wrote a Blog Post with more information.
Im trying to give my barbuttonitem in the navigationBar a value that the VoiceOver can read, instead of reading the imgname.
I tried this, but it doesn't work:
self.barBtnAbout.accessibilityLabel = NSLocalizedString(#"about", nil);
self.barBtnAbout.accessibilityHint = NSLocalizedString(#"about", nil);
Any bright ideas?
Kind Regards!
I have done this using the following:
UIView *view = (UIView*)self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem;
[view setIsAccessibilityElement:YES];
[view setAccessibilityLabel:NSLocalizedString(#"about", #"")];
[view setAccessibilityHint:NSLocalizedString(#"about", #"")];
The correct way to setup basic accessibility for a UIBarButtonItem is like this:
myBarButtonItem.isAccessibilityElement = YES;
myBarButtonItem.accessibilityLabel = NSLocalizedString(#"a short description",#"")];
myBarButtonItem.accessibilityTraits = UIAccessibilityTraitButton;
Could you tell me how to right align UISearchbar text in iOS 7? , I was using this in iOS6 but now it does not work in iOS7:
//hacking search bar
UITextField *searchField;
for (UIView *subview in self.searchBar.subviews)
{
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
searchField = (UITextField *)subview;
break;
}
}
if (searchField) {
searchField.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;
}
Unfortunately this cannot be done safely without completely re-implementing the class from scratch, as text alignment is adjusted by the internals of the object's code when the user begins and finishes editing.
The closest thing to what you want to do would be to use the three position adjustments to shift the text horizontally, but this doesn't affect alignment, only absolute position, and even then only when the user is typing.
If you want to try this, look up searchTestPositionAdjustment, setPositionAdjustment:forSearchBarIcon:, and searchFieldBackgroundPositionAdjustment. I don't think it will be of much use to you though.
-Ash
It's too late, but if anyone is still wondering the solution, then you can follow this.
UITextField *searchTextField = [searchBarController.searchBar valueForKey:#"_searchField"];
You can get the search field using above code. Now simply use the properties you want to use, like.
searchTextField.layer.cornerRadius = 10.0f;
searchTextField.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;
I've got a solution to this problem. It's a bit hacky and not very neat, but it does the trick.
Since UISearchBar itself does not allow you to edit the placeholder, I've set a UITextField underneath it and disabled it from any touches by doing this:
-(BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch
{
if([touch.view isDescendantOfView:self.placeHolderTextField]){
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
Note: don't forget to include <UIGestureRecognizerDelegate> in your .h file.
If this doesn't work however, you can always use [self.view sendSubViewToBack:self.placeholderTextField];
Next on, I've just set events on which I want to display the placeholder and when not.
In the viewDidLoad, I'm just calling self.placeHolderTextFiew.placeholder = #"search"
And in
-(void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText
{
if(searchText.length > 0){
self.placeHolderTextfield.placeholder = #"";
} else{
self.placeHolderTextfield.placeholder = #"search";
}
}
Note again: Make sure to include <UISearchBarDelegate> in your .h file in order for this to work.
I am using a tableView as well, so when the method DidSelectRowAtIndexPath is called, I'm also setting the placeholder to an empty string.
Hope this helps.
you can try like this also..
searchbar.placeholder = #"Hai.. whitespace ";
way to set text right align
searchbar->attribute inspector->search text->custom offset->horizontal(set as per requirement)
After playing with subviews of UISearchBar I found this solution, it works for iOS 6 and iOS 7
//hacking search bar
UITextField *searchField;
for (UIView *subview in self.searchBar.subviews)
{
//this will work in iOS 7
for (id sub in subview.subviews) {
if([NSStringFromClass([sub class]) isEqualToString:#"UISearchBarTextField"])
{
[sub setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentRight];
}
}
//this will work for less than iOS 7
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
searchField = (UITextField *)subview;
break;
}
}
//for less than iOS 7
if (searchField) {
searchField.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;
}
iOS 7.1 UPDATE: Looks like the workaround for modifying the alpha channel in the UINavigationBar has been ignored in this update. Right now, the best solution seems to be to just 'deal with it' and hope that whatever color you choose can render a translucent effect. I am still looking into ways of getting around this.
iOS 7.0.3 UPDATE: The GitHub library we created has been updated to slightly work around this issue when using iOS 7.0.3. Unfortunately, there is no magic formula to support both colors created in iOS 7.0.2 and earlier and iOS 7.0.3. Seems like Apple improved the saturation, but at the cost of opacity (since the blurred translucency is dependant on the opacity level). I, along with a few others, are working on creating a much better fix for this.
I'm sure many people have already come across the problem where iOS 7 tends to desaturate the color of a UINavigationBar that is translucent.
My goal is to achieve a UINavigationBar with this tint color, but translucent:
However, with translucency, I'm getting this. The background view is white, which I understand will make this view a bit lighter:
Is there any way to achieve the original color while still having translucency? I've noticed Facebook has been able to get their bar to be their rich, blue color, as displayed here:
..so I know there has to be some way. Background views obviously make a difference here, but most of their content is also gray/white. It seems that regardless of whatever bar tint color you put in, you are unable to get vivid colors under translucency.
Updated with solution.
Here's the solution that I ended up coming up with. I took aprato's solution and then encompassed the custom UINavigationBar within a UINavigationController subclass. I have created a repository that has this implementation listed below, along with an example app.
////////////////////////////
// CRNavigationBar.m
////////////////////////////
#import "CRNavigationBar.h"
#interface CRNavigationBar ()
#property (nonatomic, strong) CALayer *colorLayer;
#end
#implementation CRNavigationBar
static CGFloat const kDefaultColorLayerOpacity = 0.5f;
static CGFloat const kSpaceToCoverStatusBars = 20.0f;
- (void)setBarTintColor:(UIColor *)barTintColor {
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.colorLayer == nil) {
self.colorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.colorLayer.opacity = kDefaultColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer addSublayer:self.colorLayer];
}
self.colorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
}
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.colorLayer != nil) {
self.colorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - kSpaceToCoverStatusBars, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + kSpaceToCoverStatusBars);
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.colorLayer atIndex:1];
}
}
#end
////////////////////////////
// CRNavigationController.m
////////////////////////////
#import "CRNavigationController.h"
#import "CRNavigationBar.h"
#interface CRNavigationController ()
#end
#implementation CRNavigationController
- (id)init {
self = [super initWithNavigationBarClass:[CRNavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if(self) {
// Custom initialization here, if needed.
}
return self;
}
- (id)initWithRootViewController:(UIViewController *)rootViewController {
self = [super initWithNavigationBarClass:[CRNavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if(self) {
self.viewControllers = #[rootViewController];
}
return self;
}
#end
iOS 7.0.3 UPDATE: As you see above 7.0.3 changed things. I've updated my gist. Hopefully this will just go away as people upgrade.
Original Answer:
I ended up with a hack combining the two of the other answers. I'm subclassing UINavigationBar and adding a layer to the back with some extra space to cover if any of the various height status bars are up. The layer gets adjusted in layout subviews and the color changes whenever you set barTintColor.
Gist: https://gist.github.com/aprato/6631390
setBarTintColor
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.extraColorLayer == nil) {
self.extraColorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = self.extraColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer addSublayer:self.extraColorLayer];
}
self.extraColorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
layoutSubviews
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.extraColorLayer != nil) {
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = self.extraColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1];
CGFloat spaceAboveBar = self.frame.origin.y;
self.extraColorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - spaceAboveBar, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + spaceAboveBar);
}
The behavior of tintColor for bars has changed on iOS 7.0. It no longer affects the bar's background and behaves as described for the tintColor property added to UIView. To tint the bar's background, please use -barTintColor.You can use following code to make the app work with both ios6 and ios7.
if(IS_IOS7)
{
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
}
else
{
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
}
IS_IOS7 is a macro which is defined in pch file as follows.
#define IS_IOS7 ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion floatValue] >= 7.0)
I didn't come up with this solution but it seems to work fairly well. I just added it to viewDidLoad on my subclass of UINavigationController.
Source: https://gist.github.com/alanzeino/6619253
// cheers to #stroughtonsmith for helping out with this one
UIColor *barColour = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.13f green:0.14f blue:0.15f alpha:1.00f];
UIView *colourView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.f, -20.f, 320.f, 64.f)];
colourView.opaque = NO;
colourView.alpha = .7f;
colourView.backgroundColor = barColour;
self.navigationBar.barTintColor = barColour;
[self.navigationBar.layer insertSublayer:colourView.layer atIndex:1];
One low-fi way would probably be pinning a UIView that is the height of the Navigation Bar to the top of the view behind the bar. Make that view the same color as the navigation bar but play with the alpha until you get the desired effects:
UIView *backgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, CGRectGetWidth(self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame), 64)];
backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:1 alpha:.5];
[self.navigationController.view insertSubview:backgroundView belowSubview:self.navigationController.navigationBar];
UIView behind
(Changed color from lower examples to emphasis transparency. Transparency/blurring is more noticeable when in movement.)
Subclassing the UINavigationBar and placing that same view above the background but behind everything else will probably achieve similar results while being less hacky.
Another solution I've seen tossed around is playing with the alpha of the UINavigationBar:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.alpha = 0.5f;
Edit: Actually, after testing it seems like this doesn't provide the intend behavior (or any behavior):
.8 alpha
Unadjusted alpha
Obviously, you will only want to do this on iOS 7 devices. So, add some version check before you implement any of these.
Instead of creating your UIColor object in the RGB format, use HSB and increase the saturation parameter. (Credits to Sam Soffes who describes this method here)
navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor colorWithHue:0.555f saturation:1.f brightness:0.855f alpha:1.f];
Note: This solution is a tradeoff and doesn't work well for colors with high saturation.
To pick the HSB color from your design you can use a tool like ColorSnapper which allows you to simply copy the UIColor HSB format.
You can also try the UIColor Category (GitHub Link) from David Keegan to modify existing colors.
The problem has now been fixed by Apple in the new 7.0.3 release.
I used #aprato's solution but found a few corner cases where the new layers from new VCs (eg. UINavigationItemButtonViews, UINavigationItemViews, etc) would be automatically inserted into a position below the extraColorLayer (which would cause those title or button elements to be affected by the extraColorLayer and thus fainter in color than they normally would be). So I adjusted #aprato's solution to force the extraColorLayer to stay at the index position 1. At index position 1, the extraColorLayer stays right above the _UINavigationBarBackground, but underneath everything else.
Here's my class implementation:
- (void)setBarTintColor:(UIColor *)barTintColor
{
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.extraColorLayer == nil)
{
self.extraColorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = kDefaultColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
self.extraColorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
}
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.extraColorLayer != nil)
{
self.extraColorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - kSpaceToCoverStatusBars, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + kSpaceToCoverStatusBars);
}
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view aboveSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview
{
[super insertSubview:view aboveSubview:siblingSubview];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view atIndex:(NSInteger)index
{
[super insertSubview:view atIndex:index];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view belowSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview
{
[super insertSubview:view belowSubview:siblingSubview];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
I've improved your code in my fork: https://github.com/allenhsu/CRNavigationController
With my modification, the result color on screen (picked on white background) will be exactly the same value passed into setBarTintColor. I think it's an amazing solution.
None of these hacks are required :). Simply set:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
For iOS 7, the default translucency has been kept to TRUE.
On a related note, you can set your title text color (with shadow) easily via:
NSShadow *titleShadow = [[NSShadow alloc] init];
titleShadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, -1.0f);
titleShadow.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
NSDictionary *navbarTitleTextAttributes = #{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor],
NSShadowAttributeName: titleShadow};
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:navbarTitleTextAttributes];
I came across this Q/A while trying to setup an uniformly colored navigation bar with transparency DISABLED on iOS 7.
After experimenting a while with barTintColor I figured out that a very easy way of having an opaque navigation bar is to make a single pixel image of the desired color, make a stretchable image out of it, and setting it to the backgroundImage of the navigation bar.
UIImage *singlePixelImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"singlePixel.png"];
UIImage *resizableImage = [singlePixelImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
[navigationBar setBackgroundImage:resizableImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Three lines of code, very simple and works BOTH on iOS 6 and iOS 7 (barTintColor is unsupported on iOS 6).
Theres a great Dropin UINavigationController replacement available from Simon Booth available at GitHub Here GitHub - C360NavigationBar
If you're backward supporting iOS6 do a check on the root view controller as such:
PatientListTableViewController *frontViewController = [[PatientListTableViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navViewController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNavigationBarClass:[C360NavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if ([navViewController.view respondsToSelector:#selector(setTintColor:)]) {
//iOS7
[navViewController.view setTintColor:self.navBarTintColor];
[[C360NavigationBar appearance] setItemTintColor:self.navBarItemTintColor];
} else {
//iOS6
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque animated:NO];
navViewController.navigationBar.tintColor = self.navBarTintColor;
}
[navViewController pushViewController:frontViewController animated:NO];
self.window.rootViewController = navViewController;
As #bernhard mentioned above it's possible to saturate the bar tint color to get desired navigation bar appearance.
I wrote an BarTintColorOptimizer utility for that kind of adjustment. It optimizes translucent bar tint color to make the bar's actual color match the desired color in iOS 7.x and later. Look at this answer for details.
Frankly speaking, above answers might be right but following trick worked for me with very ease.
// this is complete 100% transparent image
self.imageBlack = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"0102_BlackNavBG"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 2, 0, 2)
resizingMode:UIImageResizingModeStretch];
// this is non-transparent but iOS7
// will by default make it transparent (if translucent is set to YES)
self.imageRed = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"0102_RedNavBG"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 2, 0, 2)
resizingMode:UIImageResizingModeStretch];
// some navigation controller
[nvCtrLeft.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:self.imageRed
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
// some another navigation controller
[nvCtrCenter.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:self.imageRed
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Here are the images used for self.imageRed and self.imageBlack.
< > black image is in this brackets won't be visible as it is transparent :)
< > red image is in this brackets.
is there a way to use #aprato solution without subclassing UINavigationBar.
In my project my main view is a UIViewController.
the problem is that the navigationController is a readonly property, is there a way to use you class with my project because i can't use : [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNavigationBarClass:
thanks
An easy way to get the color you want is using
[<NAVIGATION_BAR> setBackgroundImage:<UIIMAGE> forBarPosition:<UIBARPOSITION> barMetrics:<UIBARMETRICS>];
As long as your image has some alpha, the translucency will work and you can set the alpha by changing the image. This was just added in iOS7. The width and height for the image are 640x88px for vertical (add 20 to the 88 if you want it to be underneath the status bar).
I want to remove search bar background and I have tried the following code in custom search bar subclass:
-(void)didAddSubview:(UIView *)subview
{
if ([subview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UISearchBarBackground")])
{
subview.alpha=0;
}
}
every thing ok but when click on search bar or cancel search the background color set to black
any one knows how to remove this background color?
searchbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;
Hope it helps you
I used this code in one of my applications to remove the background and added my own background image
[[searchBar.subviews objectAtIndex:0] removeFromSuperview];
UIImageView *searchImage=[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 319.0, 44.0)];
[searchImage setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"searchbg.png"]];
[searchBar insertSubview:searchImage atIndex:1];
This may help you.