UINavigationBar is smaller than it has to be - ios

I'm developing an app and I have a sing-in/sign-out process. When the user clicks in the sign-out button I want the user to be taken to the home screen. To do this I created the following method in the app delegate:
- (void) restartAppWhenLogOut{
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
WelcomViewController *welcomeViewController = [[WelcomViewController alloc]init];
self.navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:welcomeViewController];
[self.window setRootViewController:navController];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
}
When the user clicks the "Log out" button I call this:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate restartAppWhenLogOut];
And it works fine except for one thing. The UINavigationBar is smaller than it should be! Here is an screenshot of how it looks:
There is an small black line that should be filled by the UINavigationBar...
Any idea why this is happening?
=======================================Edit=======================================
I removed the new windows creation as David M. told me to do in one comment but It still fails:
[self.navController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
WelcomViewController *welcomeViewController = [[WelcomViewController alloc]init];
self.navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:welcomeViewController];
[self.window setRootViewController:navController];

I tried to figure out the error..but didn't find out..so, i suggest you try to setting up the navigation bar manually..

Creating a new window is forbidden: "To change the content your app displays, you can change the window’s root view; you don’t create a new window." UIKit isn't intended to work that way.

Following json advice this is what I did in the viewDidLoadof the view controllor with the UINavigationBar problem:
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, 320, 44)];
I hope it helps!

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ViewController loaded in AppDelegate BUT shifted down

Inside AppDelegate.m file I have:
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.MainVC = [[MainViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MainViewController" bundle:nil];
self.HamMenuVC = [[HamMenuViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"HamMenuViewController" bundle:nil];
self.RevealVC = [[SWRevealViewController alloc]initWithRearViewController:self.HamMenuVC frontViewController:self.MainVC];
self.navC = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:self.RevealVC];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navC;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
Which is supposed to load my Main VC and then the hamburger menu VC (or slider? in iOS talk), and when I start the app I get the loaded VCs BUT the entire view seems to be shifted down roughly 30 pixels and there's this white space above.
As you can see below, this is the top of my screen and the black is where the MainVC starts:
the top of the screen
I've checked the 'self.view.frame.origin.y' inside the MainVC and it says 0.0 AND I've checked the '[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height' and it's giving me the correct height for the device I'm running it on AND I checked the '[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].origin.y' and it says 0.0.
Does anyone have a clue why all the data is saying it's in the right place but the fact is it's in the wrong place on my physical device AND on any simulator I choose?
It looks like that's the UINavigationBar on top of the screen. In your code, you're setting your rootViewController with a UINavigationController.
self.navC = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:self.RevealVC];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navC;
If you need to hide the navigation bar, call this method in your RevealVC's viewDidLoad method:
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
Also, quick tip, try to name your properties starting with lowercase letters.

Unexpected space between status bar and application ios 7 / 8

I'm trying to use onboarding library start the app, I'm not using any navigation controller this is my didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
_mobileOnboardVC = [[MobileOnboardViewController alloc]init];
_onboardVC =[_mobileOnboardVC loadOnboard];
_onboardVC.view.frame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
self.window.rootViewController = _onboardVC;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
And I'm getting this screen, can anyone point me out what's wrong with my code? Thank you
I'm not sure from your code what you are using as a navigation system, but that appears to be a navigation bar on the screen and you can remove that by doing the following:
in your viewdidload of the view controller you are presenting, just type this:'
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setHidden:TRUE];
You should also put this in your viewWillAppear in the same viewcontroller so that when the page is loaded from a "back button" press, this bar is removed as well.
So, this:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:TRUE];
}
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:TRUE];
}
It's the background picture I'm using causing this problem. I'm using a big picture for the content image, the gap should be part of my background image. To solve this, I need use a small image like an icon as page content, then it will work.

iOS navigation controller without navigation bar

This is how I launched by main controller in my iOS app.
UIViewController *rootController = [[RootViewController alloc] init];
navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootController];
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
[self.window setRootViewController:navigationController];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
With this I am getting a blank bar at the top.
I want to use a navigation controller to control the flow of screens that users are able to reach by pressing back but I don't want a navigation bar. How can I change my code to get what I want?
You can use this code right after you declare navigationController = ... in the code sample you provided:
[navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:true];
And then whenever you need to go "back," your app would run this code from within the current view controller:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:true];

Can't get rid of "Splitview controller is expected to have a view controller at index 0 before it's used" error in iOS6

I'm trying to convert my app to universal for iPad support and whatever I do I can't get rid of the "Splitview controller is expected to have a view controller at index 0 before it's used!" error right after the app stars.
I'm using iOS6 as target, XCode 4.6.3. Tried all the things that I could find on this website and Google, didn't help me at all.
I want to add a TabBar controller as a Main one (left one in the Split Controller) and some other controllers as a detail one.
Here is my current code in AppDelegate.m:
tabController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
[tabController setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:navAddVC, nav, svcNav, stvcNav, nil]];
FirstDetailViewController *fdvc = [[FirstDetailViewController alloc];
initWithNibName:#"FirstDetailViewController" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *fdvcNav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:fdvc];
viewControllers = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:tabController, fdvcNav, nil];
UISplitViewController *splitvc = [[UISplitViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[[splitvc view] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"splitViewControllerBG"]]];
[splitvc setViewControllers:viewControllers];
[splitvc setDelegate:fdvc];
[[self window] setRootViewController:splitvc];
[[self window] makeKeyAndVisible];
I'd appreciate any help, thanks.
Thanks to #Wain I solved it.
The thing was that by setting up a background image to my split vc I was loading its view.
So the solution is to set viewControllers array before the setting background color.

setRootViewController: doesn't work as expected after setViewControllers: have been called

I created a view controller programmatically and set it as a root controller. All worked perfect as it was expected:
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
CustomViewController *vc = [[CustomViewController alloc] init];
[[self window] setRootViewController:vc];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
Then I added an UITabBarViewController, set its 'viewControllers' property to point to (an array to) the main viewController 'vc'.
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
CustomViewController *vc = [[CustomViewController alloc] init];
UITabBarController *tbc = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
NSArray *controllers = #[vc];
[tbc setViewControllers:controllers];
[[self window] setRootViewController:vc];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
and the view stoped to show at the screen upon launch, also there is warning about the root view controller wasn't set. After adding the string below the view of 'vc' controller is finally loaded, but there is a blank line at the bottom of the screen, as if the UIBarController modified [[UIMainScreen bounds].
[[self window] addSubview:vc.view];
I'm new to iOS development, and I'm a bit confused. It seems I don't understand some very fundamental things about the view controllers hierarchy, but after reading the "View Controller Programming Guide" by Apple, I still don't understand where am I wrong.
The setRootViewController: method should auto assign the _view of argument view controller as default view of the window, but it doesn't happen if the named view controller was already previously pointed by viewControllers property of UITabBarViewController. Though I checked the debugger and found that 'vc' object isn't changed after setViewControllers: method is called.
Could you please explain me what is going on or point me to a documentation I should read?
UPDATE: I'm not going to insert the 'vc' controller into the 'tbc' controller. What I'd like is to display the 'vc' view fullscreen, as it would normally displayed without the code about 'tbc'.
From my point of view, adding another view (tbc in my case) should NOT affect this behaviour.
Of course, that's pretty useless from practical point of view, but I'd like to know what's going on under the hood.
You should set tbc as rootViewController.
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
CustomViewController *vc = [[CustomViewController alloc] init];
UITabBarController *tbc = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
NSArray *controllers = #[vc];
[tbc setViewControllers:controllers];
[[self window] setRootViewController:tbc];
[[self window] addSubview:tbc.view];
self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
When you add vc to the tab bar controller, it becomes a child of that controller. The root view controller of the window can't be a child, which is why you get that error. If you want vc to be full screen, then don't put it in the tab bar controller, and then at some point, you switch the window's root view controller to be the tab bar controller (if that's what you want).
You haven't said what you want to use vc for. A better way, depending on its use, might be to present it modally (so it takes the whole screen) from whichever controller is in the first tab of your tab bar controller. Do this from viewDidAppear, and it will be the firsts thing the user sees when the app starts up.

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