I have two UITableViews in my app (one for regular usage and another for searching). When I use regular one the status bar is opaque but when I enter searchResultsTableView I can see some items from regular UITableView.
As you can see the UISearchBar is opaque so there is nothing behind it but status bar is still transculent.
I've already added [self.tableView setHidden:YES]; in searchDisplayController: willShowSearchResultsTableView: but it's a very primitive solution and does not work when my regular UITableView is displayed at the beginning of search.
My question is how to make status bar opaque? Just to avoid this annoying thing.
I've found two solutions to this issue. Both works for me but the second one is simpler and you don't have to do anything in code. I hope you find it useful!
First solution:
You can create a custom UIView in code and add as a subview. If your application has one color of UINavigationBar or any other component and it won't change through the lifecycle you can always implement this in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOption:. Otherwise, you can always add this code in proper moment but you have to remember to add this subview to proper super view. Here is the code sample:
UIView *addStatusBar = [[UIView alloc] init];
addStatusBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20);
addStatusBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.79 green:0.79 blue:0.81 alpha:1];
[self.navigationController.view addSubview:addStatusBar];
Second solution:
There is one tiny checkbox in Xcode called Clip Subviews and it's super useful in that case. You can find the view which is visible under Status Bar (In my case it's UITableView) and clip it to subviews. I don't know how but in my case UISearchBar started affecting status bar so now it's opaque qith a color of UISearchBar.
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I have a quite regular UIViewController that is a part of a UINavigationController-hierarchy, which naturally makes the view have a UINavigationBar at the top. As we all know, iOS7's navigation bars are very different from previous versions.
If I drag a UITableView into my view in Storyboard, then the 'frame' for the table view is covering the entire view (I.E [tableView setFrame:self.view.frame];). Even behind the NavigationBar.
This makes so that if I scroll, the content will be faintly visible through the bar.
Contrary to most people, I actually like this.
In my current view controller, I would like to create the UITableView programmatically and place it as a subview here. However, I am unable to achieve the same effect this way.
I have tried
UITableView *table = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
[self.view addSubview: table];
This makes the 'top scrolling point' stay behind the navigation bar. Imagine a single cell in a tableView, and it's faintly visible through the top bar. If I scroll down, it pops right up behind it. That's the default 'top position'.
I have also tried
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 'nav.y+nav.height', self...width, self...height-y);
UITableView *table = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[self.view addSubview: table];
to simply place the table view in the rect below the UINavigationBar, but then I won't get the scrolling transparency effect behind the bar.
I also tried the first example along with this:
[tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 'below navbar')];
which makes it stay exactly where I want it to stay, but as soon as I touch it (scroll and release), it scrolls back up behind the navigation bar, and stays there.
What's the programmatic solution to achieve this effect? Do I have to set the offset every time I scroll too far up, or is there a simpler solution? Along with this iOS7-style, I'd imagine they would add something like [tableView setVisibleFrame:] or something..?
Add the table in storyboard like normal but make sure you have it connected to an outlet (we will call it _tableView for now).
Then in your view controller's -viewDidLoad set the top inset to be the status bar plus the navigation bar:
`self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake( (self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.origin.y + self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height), 0, 0, 0);'
This will make sure that all of the cells will be visible but will also fill the area behind the navigation bar with white so the bar doesn't end up gray.
I want to developer app with a custom navigation bar like in the following images:
I think that i need to subclass UINavigationBar and add button to centre of nav bar, but i don't really know how to make navigation bar look like on image. Can you please give me advice what should i do, links to any kind of documentation would be awesome!
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EDIT:
My idea is next: make custom navigation bar height little bigger than default size, and add background image with arrow in it and with some transparency on the edges.
If you want a button (you probably do want) you can achieve it completely by subclassing UINavigationBar. You should remember that height of UINavigationBar is read-only property.
Style but not tappable:
So let's assume we subclass the navigation bar and add button there. You could do this and it will be going look great. For example:
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
UIButton *myButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.frame.size.width/2-50, 0 , 100, 100)];
[myButton setBackgroundColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]];
[myButton setTitle:#"Normal" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[myButton setTitle:#"Highlighted" forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[self addSubview:myButton];
[self sendSubviewToBack:myButton];
}
But you will facing a problem that your button is non tapeable below UINvaigationBar. (I post an image on the bottom of the answer)
So there is clearly not a path you want to follow. Don't even try that.
Style but not tappable 2:
You may override this method in your navigation bar subclass
- (CGSize) sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
return CGSizeMake(custom_width, custom_height);
}
And then mask it using UIBezierPath for example
The right (tappable) way:
You have to create a view stick to your UINavigationBar. What i will do here (if you want it to every screen) is:
Make a Category of UIViewController which can draw (for example - this is easiest way) UIButton.
Style this 'UIButton' whatever you want (if you want
Pin action to 'UIButton': [btn addTarget:self action:#selector(menuShow:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
menuShow: method should be declare in your category
You can call drawing button every time you want to redraw view controller.
As you can see there there will be two separates View: UINavigationBar and UIButton. This is allow you to set content under this little button and make it tapable.
So why just don't hide navigation bar, and use different view? Because iOS7 ;) When Apple change it in iOS7 for example then you have to rebuild your pseudo NavigationBar, with only additional view, you don't need to do anything.
You do not need to subclass UINavigationBar. Create UIView add to it UIImageView as background with image in the shape you need, add button.
Subclass UINavigationController hide UINavigationBar, add custom navigation bar.
First Hide navigation bar using -
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
Then create UIView with required height,height of navigationBar is 44px.Then create background image view, object of required UIButton and add all objects on created UIView as a subview.It will look like navigationBar.Thank you.
You can add your custom shaped view as titleView on the navigation bar.
Just make sure that clipsToBounds is set to NO, so it doesn't get clipped.
I have a view which has two containers: Top_Container and Bottom_Container.
Each Container points to a VC with a TableView.
The Bottom_Container points to a TableView with a searchBar on top.
Whenever the searchBar gets activated in the TableView a white space appears below the searchBar between the searchBar and the greyed zone corresponding to the serachBarTableView (which superposes the TableView).
I have been trying with no success to get rid of this white space with no success.
Anybody has an idea how to customize:
- the white space which appears below the searchBar ?
- the greyed zone (searchBar TableView ?) on top of the TableView which appears whenever the searchBar gets active ?
Thank you.
Try with following code:
CGRect rect = self.searchBar.frame;
UIView *lineView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, rect.size.height-2,rect.size.width, 2)];
lineView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.searchBar addSubview:lineView];
It is fix.
I had similar problem and in my case it was caused by opaque NavigationBar. When I set NavigationBar to translucent, then the underlaying UITableView is correctly aligned to the active UISearchBar. (note: I'm using UISearchDisplayController in my view controller)
In your case maybe you can move (and animate) the underlaying table view in UISearchDisplayDelegate's methods willBeginSearch and willEndSearch. If you are using UISearchBar only, then you need to subclass it and override becomeFirstResponder and resignFirstResponder methods and implement the "table view moving" code there.
I just fixed this problem in my own code. For me, the issue was caused by 2 lines of code.
self.viewController.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;
self.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
After removing both these lines, everything worked as expected.
The iOS7 Facebook App has a right side menu that can be shown by swiping right to left or clicking on the upper right button. When this menu is opened the there is a color transition in the entire status bar from blue to black and vice-versa when closed.
This image shows both status bar side-to-side
This looks like a very good solution for iOS Apps with side menus.
Any ideas or ways about how to accomplish this?
I am currently using JASidePanels.
Thanks!
I managed to find a very simple, elegant way to do this, that mimics the Facebook app functionality perfectly.
Here's my approach:
Create view with status bar frame
Set view background color to black, opacity to 0
Add view as subview to any root view (you need a view that will cover both the center view and the menus, so that it won't be confined to any single view - a good option for this is the container view controller used by your menu controller implementation)
Set view's opacity in your menu controller implementation's menu animation method
Here's my specific implementation, using MMDrawerController:
I subclassed MMDrawerController (I actually already had a subclass for using MMDrawerController with storyboards), and added this code to the class's init method:
// Setup view behind status bar for fading during menu drawer animations
if (OSVersionIsAtLeastiOS7()) {
self.statusBarView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame]];
[self.statusBarView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[self.statusBarView setAlpha:0.0];
[self.view addSubview:self.statusBarView];
}
// Setup drawer animations
__weak __typeof(&*self) weakSelf = self; // Capture self weakly
[self setDrawerVisualStateBlock:^(MMDrawerController *drawerController, MMDrawerSide drawerSide, CGFloat percentVisible) {
MMDrawerControllerDrawerVisualStateBlock block;
block = (drawerSide == MMDrawerSideLeft) ? [MMDrawerVisualState parallaxVisualStateBlockWithParallaxFactor:15.0] : nil; // Right side animation : Left side animation
if(block){
block(drawerController, drawerSide, percentVisible);
}
[weakSelf.statusBarView setAlpha:percentVisible]; // THIS IS THE RELEVANT CODE
}];
I also added self.statusBarView as a private property.
The first section of code creates a view, configures it, and adds it as a subview of the MMDrawerController subclass's view. The OSVersionIsAtLeastiOS7() method is a custom method that simplifies the check to see if the device is running iOS 7 (if it isn't, your custom view will show up below the status bar, which you don't want).
The second section of code is MMDrawerController's setDrawerVisualStateBlock method, which sets the animations code to be performed when a menu is being opened and closed. The first few lines of code are boilerplate code that sets one of the prebuilt animations blocks to each menu (I wanted parallax on the left, but nothing on the right). The relevant code is the last line of the block: [weakSelf.statusBarView setAlpha:percentVisible];, which sets the status bar view's opacity to match the percentage that the menu is currently open. This allows for the smooth cross animation you see in the Facebook app. You'll also notice I've assigned self to a variable weakSelf, so as to avoid the "retain cycle" compiler warning.
This is my specific approach using MMDrawerController and a subclass, which I did more for convenience because I already had the subclass in place, than because it is necessarily the best approach or the only way to do it. It could probably be implemented in several other ways, using MMDrawerController without a subclass, or using any other side-drawer menu implementation.
The ending result is a smooth fading to black animation behind the status bar, exactly as you see in the new Facebook app.
I've been trying to accomplish the same thing. The method I am using to do this is based on the following concepts:
A background image with a height of 64 points will fill both the
UINavigationBar and the UIStatusBar.
A background image with a height of 44 points will fill the UINavigationBar and leave the
UIStatusBar black.
You can add an subview to the top of the current navigationController's view and it will sit underneath the UIStatusBar.
So, first, you need to create two images with your desired UINavigationBar look:
A 640x128px image to cover navigation bar and status bar (ImageA)
And a 640x88px image to cover the navigation bar but leave the status bar black (ImageB).
In the application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method, set the background of your UINavigationBar with ImageA with [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"ImageA.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
When the side menu starts to open, you are going to want switch the UINavigationBar so it uses ImageB and create a view which you will add underneath the UIStatusBar. Here is some sample code for doing just that:
// Add a property for your "temporary status bar" view
#property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *temporaryStatusBar;
And in the code where the side menu starts to open:
// Create a temporary status bar overlay
self.temporaryStatusBar = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame]];
self.temporaryStatusBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor yourColor];
[self.navigationController.view addSubview:self.temporaryStatusBar];
// Update both the current display of the navigationBar and the default appearance values
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"imageB.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"imageB.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setNeedsDisplay];
As the side menu animates open, or as the user pans the menu, all you need to do then is adjust the alpha level of the UIStatusBar overlay. When the side menu is fully open, the UINavigationBar should have ImageB as its background image and the UIStatusBar overlay should have an alpha of 0. When the side menu closes, you'll want to replace the UINavigationBar background with ImageA and remove the UIStatusBar overlay.
Let me know if this works for you!
You can use this awesome slide menu library
https://github.com/arturdev/AMSlideMenu
In this demo project you can see how to do that by writing 4 lines of code.
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
// Setting navigation's bar tint color
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor colorWithHex:#"#365491" alpha:1];
// Making view with same color that navigation bar
UIView *statusBarView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20)];
statusBarView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithHex:#"#365491" alpha:1];
// Replace status bar view with created view and do magic :)
[[self mainSlideMenu] fixStatusBarWithView:statusBarView];
}
I have an app where up until now I've been using a UINavigationController with a UINavigationBar that has its property translucent = YES. This means the UINavigationController's content view (i.e. the views from the view controllers you push) to be full-screen (minus status bar).
However, if you set the navigationBar.translucent = NO, this container view becomes 44pt shorter, as I suppose Apple has assumed you don't need any content under an opaque navigationBar.
... except if you're doing what we're doing and are employing a navigationBar that scrolls away (see This Post on how to do that) So I'd like to know if this is possible.
I want to have translucent = NO, but have everything behave as if it were still set to YES. I like the functionality of the translucent = YES, but I don't actually want the bar to be made translucent by UIKit.
What worked for me was to add
extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = true
in
viewDidLoad
something like this
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = true
}
Hope it will work for you as well
It's not necessarily a good answer but you could just offset your view that high if you're not translucent.
//This won't take into account orientation and probably other details
if(!self.navigationController.navigationBar.isTranslucent)
{
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,-44,self.view.bounds.size.height);
}
You could put that in your viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear and if you have a bunch of view controllers you can just subclass them all and put your logic in the subclass.
I found a solution that works, although it is indeed a bit of a hack.
The idea is to give the translucent nav bar an opaque backing. Unfortunately I'm not happy with the solution in that it's dirty and not encapsulated and introduces some potential issues, but i AM happy because it got the job done.
In my Application's base view controller class (i.e. MyViewController : UIViewController), in the viewDidLoad method, I instantiate a new ivar UIView *_navigationBarBG and give it the same frame as self.navigationController.navigationBar. I then set it's backgroundColor property to [UIColor whiteColor] although this is how you achieve some more tint I guess. [EDIT:If you wanted to be a purist (color values remaining exactly as they come from the .psd), you could make the _navigationBarBG a UIImageView and use your custom background there, and the background of the actual UINavigationBar you set to draw clear (or stretch a 1px transparent image if you wanted to use a typical 'change your navigation bar using an image' recipe that's somewhere on the internet)]
if(self.navigationController)
{
_navigationBarBG = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame];
_navigationBarBG.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.view addSubview:_navigationBarBG];
}
THEN, (and this is the crappy part, but I don't see any other way), I add this view as a subview. BUT, whenever you would normally make a call to [self.view addSubview: anyView], you have to make sure you call [self.view insertSubview: anyView belowSubview: _navigationBarBG];
if (_navigationBarBG)
[self.view insertSubview: anyView belowSubview:_navigationBarBG];
else
[self.view addSubview: anyView];
If you forget that, these added views will slide under your navbar background and look weird. So you need to know that this is a source of error.
WHY AM I DOING THIS? Again you might ask... I want to be able to have a scrolling navigation bar that scrolls out of the way when you scroll down your table view, thereby giving the user more screen space. This is done by using the scrollView delegate (scrollViewDidScroll:) and also viewWillAppear:
// FIRST DEAL WITH SCROLLING NAVIGATION BAR
CALayer *layer = self.navigationController.navigationBar.layer;
CGFloat contentOffsetY = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
CGPoint newPosition;
if (contentOffsetY > _scrollViewContentOffsetYThreshold && self.scrollingNavigationBarEnabled) {
newPosition = CGPointMake(layer.position.x,
22 - MIN((contentOffsetY - _scrollViewContentOffsetYThreshold), 48.0)); // my nav bar BG image is 48.0 tall
layer.position = newPosition;
[_navigationBarBG setCenter: newPosition]; // if it's nil, nothing happens
}
else
{
newPosition = kNavBarDefaultPosition; // i.e. CGPointMake(160, 22) -- portrait only
layer.position = newPosition;
[_navigationBarBG setCenter: newPosition]; // if it's nil, nothing happens
}
I was looking for an answer to this as I wanted my subviews to be at (0,0) and not (0,44)(in reference to the Screen bounds), but I could not find an answer on how to set this in the NavigationController, which I thought would be an included property.
What I ended up doing that was very simple is adding a subview to the navigation controller that was the width and height of the Navigation Bar, but then insert the subview below the Navigation Bar.
Now the setting is Translucent = YES, but it still appears solid and the subviews behave how I want.
EDIT: After re-reading your original post, I suppose if you're going to be rolling the nav bar away, you'll have to take into account hiding and showing the new subview as you do the same with the nav bar