My app is a tab bar application running on iPad.
One of the tabs contains a UIPageViewController, which I implemented pretty much as per the tutorial here: Implementing UIPageViewController programmatically – without storyboarding.
Everything works great, including rotation. However there is a problem - if I go to the tab containing the page view controller, then navigate to a different tab and change the orientation. Then navigation back to the tab containing the page view controller, it is now displayed incorrectly.
Rotating the device again, with the page view controller visible, fixes things.
I guess this is because
pageViewController:spineLocationForInterfaceOrientation:
is not called while that tab is not visible. Any ideas on how to remedy this?
I had the same problem and ended up doing the same workaround. When I was done I didn't really hate it though, because it allowed me to free-up the UIPageViewController and all of it's child UIPageViewControllers and all of their resources when the user wasn't actively using the tab.
I worked around this by re-initialising the UIPageViewController inside viewWillAppear:animated. Not ideal, but it works...
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I started an iOS project for iPhone where I thought might want a tab bar. I later decided that I don't want it (I want the extra screen space) and I so I tried to delete the tab bar and set my main ViewController as the initial viewController in storyboard.
This caused a weird error where the device's orientation no longer adjusts properly. For instance, switching from portrait orientation, shown in the picture:
becomes this in landscape:
If you start the app in landscape, it will look fine, but there will be a similar result when you switch to portrait. The bug manifests in the transition between screen orientations.
I've tried the following:
I restored the tab bar and the problem went away. This problem is caused by how I am removing the tab bar and not some other issue.
I searched for other articles dealing with this issue. So far, I've only seen documentation on how to install a tab bar, not how to safely remove it.
I attempted to connect the tab bar to the viewController with an IBOutlet and then set tabBar.isHidden = true. It's a bad hack, but it didn't work anyway. UITabBar has no such member.
I've tried comparing the settings between the tabBar viewController with my desired initial viewController in the Inspector, to see what may be different. Aside from the initial viewController check-box, I don't see a setting that might be causing this.
QUESTION: Is this a settings issue in storyboard (or elsewhere), or is this just a bug? My next attempt at a solution will be to delete the entire storyboard, and then recreate it and connect it back to the viewController. That's a fair amount of work I'd like to avoid if it's unnecessary.
Any help is appreciated. If I find a solution, I'll make sure to post it. Thanks!
UPDATE: I've found a workaround by going to the UI Tab Bar Controller in the Storyboard, selecting tab bar in Tab Bar Controller Scene -> Tab Bar Controller, and then checking the 'hidden' box in the inspector. This has the desired effect of getting rid of the tab bar when the app is running. It's like it's not there.
While this allows me to proceed with the app, the tab bar stuff is unnecessary code lying around in my app that I would like to get rid of.
Since I originally made this post, I've found out through experimentation that the every time I added Google's GMSMapView to a viewController, programmatically or in storyboard, I was having the above orientation issues. My original problem wasn't what I thought it was
I have since tried completely rebuilding the storyboard, viewController and all, but the problem didn't go away. I also tried overloading the orientation methods for the view to no effect.
However, if you are having this orientation problem with Google Maps sdk, imbedding the view controller that contains your GMSMapView in a tab view controller, and then hiding the tab bar (unless you want a tab bar) fixes the orientation issue in my project. It's not pretty, but it works.
I have two views. Upon clicking a button, the other view should be segued onto the screen with a show (previously called push) segue. This works flawlessly, however, for some strange reason when transitioning a short imprint of the previous view is left behind. This seems to be happening only for these 2 views, I can not reproduce it with others, and the bug occurs both on the simulator and an actual device. Here is a GIF of what is happening: https://gyazo.com/662a813de15ba90d6581976f55866289
(Stackoverflow doesn't support direct Gif's in post as far as I'm aware, so sorry for the external link)
Sorry for the low quality.
I simply control-dragged from the "Signup" button to the other screen to create the segue. This seems to be the only transition that is doing this throughout my entire app. This is what it looks like in storyboard. I'm doing nothing programmatically before/after the segue sends.
I've tried programmatically creating the segue as well, however the same effect is occurring. I could not find any similar stackoverflow posts.
Any clues on why this is happening and any possible fixes would be great. If you need more information please let me know.
Edit:
I am not doing anything to resource extensive on the view initialization (I'm simply making the nav bar translucent and modifying a few outlets). I feel it is important to note that the background (The blue) and the sonus logo are both Image Views. I've attempted programmatically setting the background image, however this made no effect on the outcome of the problem.
Go through the below Solution:
Click on "Second View Controller"
Select the top UIView
Now change it's background color to Default
This will solve your problem!
I am trying to do a UX like Yelp's middle UITabBar item with navigation. I saw https://github.com/BasheerSience/BROptionsButton and am using it to get the pop-up UIButtons. However, when I try to navigate to other view controllers from the buttons I can't get anything working. Note, I am using the storyboard. I need a navigation controller since each of the pop-up buttons will navigate to separate VCs. I am probably missing something very basic, but am not seeing it. Thanks!!
I finally came back to this. I ended up using a container view where the ...didSelectItem:(BROptionItem*)item method dictates which child view to navigate to.
I found this to be the most helpful for my situation:
https://github.com/mluton/EmbeddedSwapping
I am new to xcode and IOS (and this board. First post).
I am completely flummoxed by a design problem and unsure how to approach.
I have three buttons, each of which calls a new array of pages that need to navigate horizontally with swipe gestures and have their own buttons.
The three buttons in the parent work exactly like a tab bar except they have to be bigger and higher than a tab bar would be. The called page arrays mostly work like a pageviewcontroller except that the pages need to have a button/indicator below to allow non sequential navigation. The target HAS TO LOAD WITH A SEGUE.
The problem I'm encountering is that using a modal segue to load a pageviewcontroller and prepareForSegue to keep the master/parent view controller visible results in my buttons being inaccessible. I assume its because I cant click thought the child view controller.
Secondly, I don't know if its possible to customize the page indicator dots of a pageviewcontroller so they can look like a bar with graphics.
Here are my specific questions:
Is it possible to load a view controller with a modal segue and still access my buttons? Can the child be resized?
can i customize the buttons/indicators in a pageviewcontroller. Can you point me to some code?
should navigation like this be done with some completely different approach? What about a view controller container?
Here's a diagram (cant post images directly yet)
I've found the answer to my second question: It seems that pageViewController's indicators are not customizable in any way. This rules out pageViewController for what I need.
9 Views in 10 hours. Is this not the best forum for questions like this or is there something wrong with my post?
I have an app built in storyboard that needs to support landscape mode in just one view controller. I decided to support iOS 6 after some issues with supporting iOS 5 and running iOS 6 on my phone. I used this Stack Overflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12505461/1050388 but I'm still seeing a weird quirk. (For those interested, my controller scheme is Tab Controller -> Navigation Controller -> TableViewController -> UIWebView. The UIWebView is the only VC I need to rotate.)
I blocked all but one VC from turning, but that VC is in the "More" tab. I initially had a quirk where this "More" VC would change orientation to landscape when rotated and then any subsequent VC would be in landscape, but I found this (https://stackoverflow.com/a/12526152/1050388) and creating a category for UINavigationController helped to solve that issue.
However, when I navigate to that tab in the "More" list, and turn the VC, it doesn't rotate. But when I click "Edit" and move that tab to the home row of the initial 4 tabs, it rotates just fine. If I move it back, it doesn't rotate. Anyone have an idea why this is happening?
I believe the problem stems from the fact that the More navigation controller is generated dynamically by iOS and is read-only.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITabBarController_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITabBarController/moreNavigationController
It would be great if the technique of using a custom category would work here but based on your experience I guess it doesn't.
I also need better control of orientations for More tab views. Please post anything you come up with. Thanks.