Can we customize the page indicator in UIPageViewController? - ios

Question

Now it's white dots with black background. What about if I want it to be black dots with white backgrounds?
- (NSInteger)presentationCountForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0)
{
return _imageArrays.count;
}// The number of items reflected in the page indicator.
- (NSInteger)presentationIndexForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0)
{
return self.intCurrentIndex;
}// The selected item reflected in the page indicator.

Answer 1

You can use UIAppearance to change the color of UIPageControl. Try this in your AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
UIPageControl *pageControl = [UIPageControl appearance];
pageControl.pageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
pageControl.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
pageControl.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
return YES;
}
EDIT:
To apply style only to a particular view controller, use appearanceWhenContainedIn instead, as following:
UIPageControl *pageControl = [UIPageControl appearanceWhenContainedIn:[MyViewController class], nil];
Now, only UIPageControl objects contained in the MyViewController are going to adapt this style.
Thanks Mike & Shingoo!
EDIT:
If you see black background around UIPageControl at the bottom of your screen, it is due to the background color of your UIPageViewController not UIPageControl. You can change this color as following:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor]; //Set it to whatever you like
}

Answer 2

I don't believe that you can manipulate the UIPageViewController's page control. My solution:
I have a "root" UIViewController that is UIPageViewControllerDelegate and UIPageViewControllerDataSource.
On this root view controller, I have #property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIPageControl *pageControl. In the corresponding storyboard nib, I add a UIPageControl, position it, and check "Hides for Single Page". I can also change the colors, if I wish.
Then, I add the following in the root view controller's viewDidLoad: self.pageControl.numberOfPages = [self.features count]
My root view controller also has #property (strong, nonatomic) UIPageViewController *pageViewController. And in the implementation:
self.pageViewController = [[UIPageViewController alloc]
initWithTransitionStyle:UIPageViewControllerTransitionStyleScroll
navigationOrientation:UIPageViewControllerNavigationOrientationHorizontal
options:nil];
self.pageViewController.delegate = self;
DataViewController *startingViewController = [self viewControllerAtIndex:0 storyboard:self.storyboard];
NSArray *viewControllers = #[startingViewController];
[self.pageViewController setViewControllers:viewControllers
direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward
animated:NO
completion:NULL];
self.pageViewController.dataSource = self;
[self addChildViewController:self.pageViewController];
[self.view addSubview:self.pageViewController.view];
self.pageViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height + 10.0);
[self.pageViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
self.view.gestureRecognizers = self.pageViewController.gestureRecognizers;
(SIDE NOTE: That line that sets the frame makes the height of the UIPageViewController's view exceed the screen size so that the native page control is no longer visible. My app is portrait only, iPhone only, so I got off a bit easy here. If you need to handle rotations, you'll have to find a way to keep that native page control offscreen. I tried using auto layout, but UIPageViewController creates a set of magic views that have a bunch of autolayout mask constraints that I couldn't find a way to override.)
Anyway...then I add an extra UIPageViewController delegate method to change my new, non-native UIPageControl to the currently-selected page:
- (void)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)viewController didFinishAnimating:(BOOL)finished previousViewControllers:(NSArray *)previousViewControllers transitionCompleted:(BOOL)completed
{
if (!completed){return;}
// Find index of current page
DataViewController *currentViewController = (DataViewController *)[self.pageViewController.viewControllers lastObject];
NSUInteger indexOfCurrentPage = [self indexOfViewController:currentViewController];
self.pageControl.currentPage = indexOfCurrentPage;
}
Not as pretty as I would like, but Apple's API for this class doesn't exactly lend itself to elegance.

Answer 3

You can actually grab it and store it locally in your own property in one of the delegate calls.
Put this code inside your delegate to access the UIPageControl inside the UIPageViewController:
- (NSInteger)presentationCountForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController
{
[self setupPageControlAppearance];
return kPageCount;
}
- (void)setupPageControlAppearance
{
UIPageControl * pageControl = [[self.view.subviews filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"(class = %#)", [UIPageControl class]]] lastObject];
pageControl.pageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor grayColor];
pageControl.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
}

Answer 4

You can recursively search it in your subviews
- (void)findAndConfigurePageControlInView:(UIView *)view
{
for (UIView *subview in view.subviews) {
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIPageControl class]]) {
UIPageControl * pageControl = (UIPageControl *)subview;
//customize here
pageControl.hidesForSinglePage = YES;
break;
} else {
[self findAndConfigurePageControlInView:subview];
}
}
}
- (NSInteger)presentationCountForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController
{
[self findAndConfigurePageControlInView:self.view];
return self.promotionsVCs.count;
}
it works for me

Answer 5

UIPageControl *pageControl = [UIPageControl appearanceWhenContainedIn:[MyViewController class], nil];
pageControl.pageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
pageControl.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor redColor];
pageControl.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
This will change the appearance just for "MyViewController". If you want to have different colors in different page indicators on the same view you have to create different subviews and customize them individually.

Answer 6

Here's what I did in Swift 4. I tried similar answers first, in viewDidLoad, but this is what eventually worked. This same snippet was used to answer similar SO questions.
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
for view in self.view.subviews{
if view is UIPageControl{
(view as! UIPageControl).currentPageIndicatorTintColor = .yellow
}
}
}
Once you have the UIPageControl in this block, you should be able to customize its indicator colours

Answer 7

If you use the "auto generated" page indicator created by UIPageViewController, I think that you can't customize it. The only way you could do that is to add an extra PageControl, either the one provided by Apple or a custom one as #Maschel proposed.

Answer 8

It is possible to customise it through appearance. You can do it in AppDelegate like this.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
UIPageControl *pageControl = [UIPageControl appearance];
pageControl.pageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
pageControl.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
pageControl.backgroundColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
return YES;
}
If you want to do it just for a certain view controller, replace the pageControl with this instead.
UIPageControl *pageControl = [UIPageControl appearanceWhenContainedIn:[MyViewController class], nil];

Answer 9

This one working perfectly for custom image
self.pageControl.pageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"page_indicater"]];
self.pageControl.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"page_indicater_selection"]];

Answer 10

You can use SMPageControl: Github. It works just like the UIPageControl but with more customisation possibilities.

Answer 11

You can easily access the UIPageViewController's pageControl by defining a computed property like this:
var pageControl: UIPageControl? {
for subview in view.subviews {
if let pageControl = subview as? UIPageControl {
return pageControl
}
}
return nil
}
And then customize it to suite your needs like this:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
pageControl?.backgroundColor = .white
pageControl?.pageIndicatorTintColor = .red
pageControl?.currentPageIndicatorTintColor = .blue
}
Obvious caveat: if Apple ever decides to change the UIPageViewController view hierarchy this will stop working.