Since there is no complete, definitive answer to this common recurring question, I'll ask and answer it here.
Often we need to present a UIViewController such that it doesn't cover full screen, as in the picture below.
Apple provides several similar UIViewController, such as UIAlertView, Twitter or Facebook share view controller, etc..
How can we achieve this effect for a custom controller?
NOTE : This solution is broken in iOS 8. I will post new solution ASAP.
I am going to answer here using storyboard but it is also possible without storyboard.
Init: Create two UIViewController in storyboard.
lets say FirstViewController which is normal and SecondViewController which will be the popup.
Modal Segue: Put UIButton in FirstViewController and create a segue on this UIButton to SecondViewController as modal segue.
Make Transparent: Now select UIView (UIView Which is created by default with UIViewController) of SecondViewController and change its background color to clear color.
Make background Dim: Add an UIImageView in SecondViewController which covers whole screen and sets its image to some dimmed semi transparent image. You can get a sample from here : UIAlertView Background Image
Display Design: Now add an UIView and make any kind of design you want to show. Here is a screenshot of my storyboard
Here I have add segue on login button which open SecondViewController as popup to ask username and password
Important: Now that main step. We want that SecondViewController doesn't hide FirstViewController completely. We have set clear color but this is not enough. By default it adds black behind model presentation so we have to add one line of code in viewDidLoad of FirstViewController. You can add it at another place also but it should run before segue.
[self setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
Dismiss: When to dismiss depends on your use case. This is a modal presentation so to dismiss we do what we do for modal presentation:
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:Nil];
Thats all.....
Any kind of suggestion and comment are welcome.
Demo :
You can get demo source project from Here : Popup Demo
NEW : Someone have done very nice job on this concept : MZFormSheetController
New : I found one more code to get this kind of function : KLCPopup
iOS 8 Update : I made this method to work with both iOS 7 and iOS 8
+ (void)setPresentationStyleForSelfController:(UIViewController *)selfController presentingController:(UIViewController *)presentingController
{
if (iOSVersion >= 8.0)
{
presentingController.providesPresentationContextTransitionStyle = YES;
presentingController.definesPresentationContext = YES;
[presentingController setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext];
}
else
{
[selfController setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
[selfController.navigationController setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
}
}
Can use this method inside prepareForSegue deligate like this
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
PopUpViewController *popup = segue.destinationViewController;
[self setPresentationStyleForSelfController:self presentingController:popup]
}
Modal Popups in Interface Builder (Storyboards)
Step 1
On the ViewController you want as your modal popup, make the background color of the root UIView clear.
Tip: Do not use the root UIView as your popup. Add a new UIView that is smaller to be your popup.
Step 2
Create a Segue to the ViewController that has your popup. Select "Present Modally".
Two Methods To Create Popup From Here
Method One - Using the Segue
Select the Segue and change Presentation to "Over Current Context":
Method Two - Using the View Controller
Select the ViewController Scene that is your popup. In Attributes Inspector, under View Controller section, set Presentation to "Over Current Context":
Either method will work. That should do it!
You can do this in Interface Builder.
For the view you wish to present modally set its outermost view background to transparent
Control + click and drag from the host view controller to the modal view controller
Select present modally
Click on the newly created segue and in the Attribute Inspector (on the right) set "Presentation" to "Over Current Context"
Feel free to use my form sheet controller MZFormSheetControllerfor iPhone, in example project there are many examples on how to present modal view controller which will not cover full window and has many presentation/transition styles.
You can also try newest version of MZFormSheetController which is called MZFormSheetPresentationController and have a lot of more features.
You can use EzPopup (https://github.com/huynguyencong/EzPopup), it is a Swift pod and very easy to use:
// init YourViewController
let contentVC = ...
// Init popup view controller with content is your content view controller
let popupVC = PopupViewController(contentController: contentVC, popupWidth: 100, popupHeight: 200)
// show it by call present(_ , animated:) method from a current UIViewController
present(popupVC, animated: true)
Imao put UIImageView on background is not the best idea . In my case i added on controller view other 2 views . First view has [UIColor clearColor] on background, second - color which u want to be transparent (grey in my case).Note that order is important.Then for second view set alpha 0.5(alpha >=0 <=1).Added this to lines in prepareForSegue
infoVC.providesPresentationContextTransitionStyle = YES;
infoVC.definesPresentationContext = YES;
And thats all.
Swift 4:
To add an overlay, or the popup view
You can also use the Container View with which you get a free View Controller ( you get the Container View from the usual object palette/library)
Steps:
Have a View (ViewForContainer in the pic) that holds this Container View, to dim it when the contents of Container View are displayed. Connect the outlet inside the first View Controller
Hide this View when 1st VC loads
Unhide when Button is clicked
To dim this View when the Container View content is displayed, set the Views Background to Black and opacity to 30%
You will get this effect when you click on the Button
You can do this to add any other subview to the view controller.
First set the status bar to None for the ViewController which you want to add as subview so that you can resize to whatever you want. Then create a button in Present View controller and a method for button click. In the method:
- (IBAction)btnLogin:(id)sender {
SubView *sub = [[SubView alloc] initWithNibName:#"SubView" bundle:nil];
sub.view.frame = CGRectMake(20, 100, sub.view.frame.size.width, sub.view.frame.size.height);
[self.view addSubview:sub.view];
}
Hope this helps, feel free to ask if any queries...
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This is my question,think that I have two views. in the first view there is a imageview(with a image) and a button.When I press the button then it load second view(with storyboard segue kind is present modally).when that view loads, I want to set the first view, through the second view(should be transparent).
I tried with setting secondview's defatul view background color to default but it gives black.how can I do that.
Oh i fixed you issue after a few minutes test...
I found that segue has a property named presentation,like this:
you may change the property to Over Current Context and it works
Select your secondviewcontroller goto attribute inspector then select Transition style to 'cover vertical' and presentation to 'over current context'
and write the code for presentviewcontroller to present your second view controller modally in firstviewcontroller.
You can add the view of one viewcontroller to another as a subview. This way the code for each viewcontroller is in it's own class, but they are displayed on top of each other.
MyViewController *viewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
[viewControllerA.view setFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];
[self.view addSubview:viewController.view];
I'm trying to create a modal view using Xcode's storyboard. I want it to consist of a small opaque view within a transparent view, so as to look like what would be called a popup window in desktop terminology.
I've created a segue to the new view controller, set it to "Present Modally" and its presentation to "Current Context", created my opaque view in the new view controller, and then set the background of the view of the new view controller to "Clear Color", and unchecked "Opaque".
When I trigger the segue, the new box slides into place over the previous view, exactly as it should, but then as soon as the animation ends, the background goes black.
What's going wrong here? How can I make the background stay transparent and the old view remain visible?
You can use this category and change the code for you have the transparent modal view. In file UIViewController+ENPopUp.m you just have add [popUpView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; in the end of presentPopUpView method.
I hope this can help you.
You need to use View Controller Containment:
iOS Developer Library
// Sample code you can use in your UIViewController
func addChildVC(child: UIViewController) {
self.addChildViewController(child)
child.view.bounds = self.view.bounds
self.view.addSubview(child.view)
child.didMoveToParentViewController(self)
}
func removeChildVC(child:UIViewController) {
child.willMoveToParentViewController(nil)
child.view.removeFromSuperview()
child.removeFromParentViewController()
}
I have a view controller that has a map view and a second view under the a tab bar. How do I go about updating the second view when I press buttons on the tab bar?
I tried:
LocationNotesViewController lnvc = new LocationNotesViewController();
lnvc.View.Frame = MainPageTabBarView.Frame;
MainPageTabBarView = lnvc.View;
Nothing happens...the view doesn't update.
I want to update the second view with different things when a user clicks on the tabbar...
If you put a UIView underlying whatever data you want displayed in it, you can use the IBAction of the tabBar to programtically cahnge out the contents of the UIView.
Or you could have the IBActions of the tabbar create new UIViews on the fly, containing whatever you want inside.
Code to do this would be like explained here: http://www.programmerscountry.com/creating-uiviewcontrols-programatically/.
Not exactly the same, but you will understand how it works from that answer.
To switch UIViewControllers use this piece of code:
UIViewController *viewController =
[self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"4"];
[self presentViewController:a animated:YES completion:nil];
I think this is a work around - but I was able to make this happen by doing:
LocationNotesViewController lnvc = new LocationNotesViewController();
lnvc.View.Frame = new RectangleF(MainPageTabBarView.Frame.X, MainPageTabBarView.Frame.Y - MainPageTabBarView.Frame.Y, MainPageTabBarView.Frame.Width, MainPageTabBarView.Frame.Height);
MainPageTabBarView.AddSubview(lnvc.View);
I have a custom tab bar controller subclass and instead of a tab bar, I use a custom UIView.
The problem is that I cannot get my view controllers to appear. I see a white screen and the "tab" if I call
[super setViewControllers:]
I get really odd artefacts as far as appearance goes.
So instead I tried setting the selectedViewController directly. I've kind of drawn a blank. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you tell me how you are having a custom view for tabs..
Have u removed tabBar & added ur custom tabView.? and keep in mind if remove your tabBar the whole tabBarController will be removed..
So you need to just hide the tabBar from tabBarController and add ur custom UIView in place of tabBar and everything works fine. You have to select the tab index programatically as per the button selection in your custom view.
You can use view Controller containment concept in order to implement custom tabbar.
[self addChildViewController:content]; // 1
content.view.frame = [self frameForContentController]; // 2
[self.view addSubview:self.currentClientView];
[content didMoveToParentViewController:self]; // 3
You can also use my custom control
Custom Tabbar Control
I'm facing a problem I don't understand.
In my main view, I have a button heading to another view. Everything is embedded in a NavigationController.
I successfully changed the background image of my NavigationBar in my main view. But when I click on the button to display my other view, my NavigationBar's isn't repainted although I'm using this code :
- (IBAction) toOtherView : (id) sender
{
if(!otherView) otherView = [[OtherViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"OtherViewController" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:otherView animated:NO];
}
However, I also have a Dark Info button on my main view (I choosed the default Utility Application at first). It flips to another view and when I come back to my main view, the NavigationBar image has been changed. So I guess it's a problem of repaint. But what can I do here ?
Thanks a lot for your advices.