i know that this question looks the same as other around here, but none of them say anything about incompatibility between ios4 and ios5.
In my app i want to customize the pattern of the navigation Bar, but my deployment target is ios4, so i am using the code bellow above the implementation of the appDelegate.m to do this:
#implementation UINavigationBar (CustomImage)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
UIColor *color = [UIColor blackColor];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: #"nav_bar.png"];
[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];
self.tintColor = color;
}
#end
When i run the app using the 4.3 simulator, it works properly, but when i simulate in ios5, it doesnt work, the nav bar goes back to the default color.. any help?
Thanks.
Here's a category that will work on both iOS 4 and 5:
#implementation UINavigationBar (CustomBackground)
- (UIImage *)barBackground
{
return [UIImage imageNamed:#"top-navigation-bar.png"];
}
- (void)didMoveToSuperview
{
//iOS5 only
if ([self respondsToSelector:#selector(setBackgroundImage:forBarMetrics:)])
{
[self setBackgroundImage:[self barBackground] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
}
}
//this doesn't work on iOS5 but is needed for iOS4 and earlier
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
//draw image
[[self barBackground] drawInRect:rect];
}
#end
I'd recommend using your existing code when running on iOS4, and using the new iOS5 features to customize the bar under iOS5.
See here: UINavigationBar's drawRect is not called in iOS 5.0
For iOS5 you can use this approach:
if([navigationBar respondsToSelector:#selector(setBackgroundImage:forBarMetrics:)] ) {
[navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed: #"nav_bar.png"]; forBarMetrics: UIBarMetricsDefault];
}
I usually put it into appDelegate.
Related
I am develop in objective-C. I want to change the tab bar background like the following picture:
And the code is like the following:
UIImage *tabBarBackground = [UIImage imageNamed:#"tabbaritem_background.png"];
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:tabBarBackground];
But after setting the background image , the background is not at the correct place like the following:
The background image should be place at the bottom like the background in above picture.
Did I missing something ? Can someone help me ?
Thanks in advance.
I think is somewhere you go wrong, check if is this steps:
In the storyboard change the ViewController's background color for test.
Embed the ViewController in Tab Bar Controller
In the ViewController.m you can set the tabbar bacground color:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor grayColor]]; // Here you can set the converted color form image, make sure the imageSize fit.
}
The result is below:
I think the method - (UIImage *)resizableImageWithCapInsets:(UIEdgeInsets)capInsets resizingMode:(UIImageResizingMode)resizingMode you can try, because your backgroudimage's size is not equal to tabbar'size.
Try this method to change your image to a ScaleImage.
+(UIImage *)getScaleImageNamed:(NSString *)name{
UIImage *nomalImage = [UIImage imageNamed:name];
CGFloat hInset = floorf(nomalImage.size.width / 2);
CGFloat vInset = floorf(nomalImage.size.height / 2);
UIImage *res = [nomalImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(vInset, hInset, vInset, hInset)];
return res;
}
Steps you may miss, hope that can help.
Make sure you have imported the background image (e.g. in Assets.xcassets)
Use resizableImageWithCapInsets: to resize the background image
Put the UIAppearance settings in AppDelegate.m:
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:#"tabbaritem_background.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)]];
Is it possible to have dynamically coloring statusBar which is in the new Apple Music app ?
Edit:
The new Apple Music app in iOS 8.4 has this feature.
Open the app.
Select and play a song (status bar is white)
Swipe player controller down to see "My music" controller (it has black status bar, maybe you will have to go back in navigation hierarchy).
Now just swipe up/down to see dynamic status bar changes.
Edit 2:
Apple documentation does not seem to let us use it right now (iOS 8.4). Will be available probably in the future with iOS 9.
Edit 3:
Does not seems to be available in iOS 9 yet.
I am 99.99% sure this cannot be done using public API (easily), because I tried myself almost everything there is (i personally also don't think it is some magical method of their status bar, but instead, their application is able to retrieve status bar view and then just apply mask to it).
What I am sure of is that you can do your own StatusBar and there is MTStatusBarOverlay library for that, unfortunately very old one so I can't really tell if that works but it seems that there are still people who use it.
But using the way library does it, I think there might be solution that sure, requires a lot of work, but is doable, though not "live". In a nutshell you would do this:
Take screenshot of top 20 pixels (status bar)
From that screenshot, remove everything that is not black (you can improve it so it searches for black edges, this way you can preserve green battery and transparency) This will make your overlay mask and also fake status bar
Overlay statusbar with : background view masking actual status bar, and the alpha-image you just created
Apply mask to that image, everything that is masked will change color to shades of white
Change height of the mask depending on user scroll
Now you should be able to scroll properly and change the color properly. The only problem that it leaves is that status bar is not alive, but is it really? once you scroll out, you immediately remove your overlay, letting it to refresh. You will do the same when you scroll to the very top, but in that case, you change color of the status bar to white (no animation), so it fits your state. It will be not-live only for a brief period of time.
Hope it helps!
Iterating upon Jiri's answer, this will get you pretty close. Substitute MTStatusBarOverlay with CWStatusBarNotification. To handle the modal transition between view controllers, I'm using MusicPlayerTransition. We're assuming an imageView: "art" in self.view with frame:CGRect(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.width). Needs a little massaging, but you get the gist. Note: Though we're not "live," the most we'll ever be off is one second, and battery color is not preserved. Also, you'll need to set the animation time in CWStatusBarNotification.m to zero. (notificationAnimationDuration property).
#import "CWStatusBarNotification.h"
#define kStatusTextOffset 5.4 // (rough guess of) space between window's origin.y and status bar label's origin.y
#interface M_Player () <UIGestureRecognizerDelegate>
#property (retain) UIView *fakeStatusBarView;
#property (retain) CWStatusBarNotification *fakeStatusBar;
#property (retain) UIImageView *statusImgView;
#property (retain) UIImageView *statusImgViewCopy;
#property (retain) UIWindow *window;
#property (strong, nonatomic) NSTimer *statusTimer;
#end
#implementation M_Player
#synthesisze fakeStatusBarView, fakeStatusBar, statusImgView, statusImgViewCopy, window, statusTimer;
-(void)viewDidLoad{
self.window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate].window;
UIPanGestureRecognizer *pan = [[UIPanGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(handleStatusBarDrag:)];
pan.delegate = self;
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:pan];
}
-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
if (!fakeStatusBar){
[self buildFakeStatusBar];
}
if (!statusTimer) {
[self setupStatusBarImageUpdateTimer];
}
// optional
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
-(void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated{
[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
[self destroyStatusBarImageUpdateTimer];
}
-(void)destroyFakeStatusBar{
[statusImgView removeFromSuperview];
statusImgView = nil;
[fakeStatusBarView removeFromSuperview];
fakeStatusBarView = nil;
fakeStatusBar = nil;
}
-(void)buildFakeStatusBar{
UIWindow *statusBarWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] valueForKey:#"_statusBarWindow"]; // This window is actually still fullscreen. So we need to capture just the top 20 points.
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.bounds.size);
[statusBarWindow.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20);
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([viewImage CGImage], rect);
UIImage *statusImg = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
statusImg = [statusImg imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate]; // This allows us to set the status bar content's color via the imageView's .tintColor property
statusImgView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20)];
statusImgView.image = statusImg;
statusImgView.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.859 alpha:1.000]; // any color you want
statusImgViewCopy = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20)];
statusImgViewCopy.image = statusImg;
statusImgViewCopy.tintColor = statusImgView.tintColor;
fakeStatusBarView = nil;
fakeStatusBar = nil;
fakeStatusBarView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20)];
[fakeStatusBarView addSubview:statusImgView];
fakeStatusBar = [CWStatusBarNotification new];
fakeStatusBar.notificationStyle = CWNotificationStyleStatusBarNotification;
[fakeStatusBar displayNotificationWithView:fakeStatusBarView forDuration:CGFLOAT_MAX];
}
-(void)handleStatusBarDrag:(UIPanGestureRecognizer*)gestureRecognizer{
if (gestureRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
}
if (gestureRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged){
CGPoint convertedPoint = [self.window convertPoint:art.frame.origin fromView:self.view];
CGFloat originY = convertedPoint.y - kStatusTextOffset;
if (originY > 0 && originY <= 10) { // the range of change we're interested in
//NSLog(#"originY:%f statusImgView.frame:%#", originY, NSStringFromCGRect(statusImgView.frame));
// render in context from new originY using our untouched copy as reference view
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.bounds.size);
[statusImgViewCopy.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, kStatusTextOffset + originY, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20);
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([viewImage CGImage], rect);
UIImage *statusImg = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
statusImgView.image = statusImg;
statusImgView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, kStatusTextOffset + originY);
}
// destroy
if (originY > 90) {
[self destroyFakeStatusBar];
}
}
if (gestureRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded){
}
}
- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer{
return YES;
}
To keep your status bar screenshots in sync with the actual status bar, setup your timer. Fire it in viewWillAppear, and kill it in viewDidDisappear.
-(void)setupStatusBarImageUpdateTimer{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(){
// main thread
if (!statusTimer) {
statusTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1 target:self selector:#selector(handleStatusTimer:) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] addTimer:statusTimer forMode:NSRunLoopCommonModes];
}
});
});
}
-(void)destroyStatusBarImageUpdateTimer{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(){
// main thread
[statusTimer invalidate];
statusTimer = nil;
});
});
}
-(void)handleStatusTimer:(NSTimer*)timer{
UIWindow *statusBarWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] valueForKey:#"_statusBarWindow"];
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(self.view.bounds.size.width, 20));
[statusBarWindow.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 20);
CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect([viewImage CGImage], rect);
UIImage *statusImg = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageRef];
CGImageRelease(imageRef);
statusImg = [statusImg imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
statusImgViewCopy.image = statusImg;
}
Because we have a strong reference to the timer and setup and invalidation happens on the same thread, there's no worrying about the timer failing to invalidate.
The final result should look something like this:
At first glance it looked like a manipulation of a snapshot from the status bar but the status bar is live on both ends so that's not the case.
At second glance it looked like some new api that was introduced in iOS 8.4 but after reviewing the api I couldn't find anything related to that.
It seems very odd to me that apple would use private apis in her own app. This would results some really bad example for developers but then again, there is nothing public that will let you have two styles on your live statusbar.
This leaves us with private api or black magic.
Thinking about how to implement this without private APIs.
I think there may be a solution with second UIWindow overlaying your statusBar.
Adding view on StatusBar in iPhone
Maybe it's possible to make screenshots of status bar constantly (taken from your main Window) to the image, apply some filter on it and display this 'fake statusbar image' on your second window (above 'real' statusBar).
And you can do what you want with the second "fake" statusbar.
I'm in the process of upgrading my app to iOS7. However I want to preserve the iOS6 interface as well. It works well except for the navigation bar(s). In iOS7 they look great (just the default color with the translucent property to YES. In iOS6 the navigation bars are showing as the default blue bars and I want them to be black translucent.
What I do is check the version of the iOS and then perform some code. In the debugger I see they right version in the vComp variable but the color is not changing. Don't mind the redColor property, that's just for the test. In both ways I am presented with the default color.
Here is my code:
- (void) fixNavBarColor:(UINavigationBar*)bar {
NSArray *vComp = [[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion componentsSeparatedByString:#"."];
if ([[vComp objectAtIndex:0] intValue] >= 7) {
bar.barTintColor = [UIColor redColor];
bar.translucent = NO;
}
else {
bar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];
bar.opaque = YES;
}
}
There is no error or warning.
Any ideas?
You shouldn't set the tintColor straight to navigationBar as it wouldn't be applied to other parts of your app, you should instead use UINavigationBar's appearance to set tintColor which is available on iOS 5.0 onwards.
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTintColor:"Your Color"];
Use this code for iOS6
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageWithColor:[UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:.8]]
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
In my app, I have custom navigation bars using images. I load them up in viewWillAppear like so:
-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
UIImage *gradientImage46 = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"navbar2.png"]resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:gradientImage46 forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
}
On iOS 7, this is fine, but I just noticed on 6.1, the bar is much too large and looks like this:
Thoughts as to what's happening?
iOS 7.1 UPDATE: Looks like the workaround for modifying the alpha channel in the UINavigationBar has been ignored in this update. Right now, the best solution seems to be to just 'deal with it' and hope that whatever color you choose can render a translucent effect. I am still looking into ways of getting around this.
iOS 7.0.3 UPDATE: The GitHub library we created has been updated to slightly work around this issue when using iOS 7.0.3. Unfortunately, there is no magic formula to support both colors created in iOS 7.0.2 and earlier and iOS 7.0.3. Seems like Apple improved the saturation, but at the cost of opacity (since the blurred translucency is dependant on the opacity level). I, along with a few others, are working on creating a much better fix for this.
I'm sure many people have already come across the problem where iOS 7 tends to desaturate the color of a UINavigationBar that is translucent.
My goal is to achieve a UINavigationBar with this tint color, but translucent:
However, with translucency, I'm getting this. The background view is white, which I understand will make this view a bit lighter:
Is there any way to achieve the original color while still having translucency? I've noticed Facebook has been able to get their bar to be their rich, blue color, as displayed here:
..so I know there has to be some way. Background views obviously make a difference here, but most of their content is also gray/white. It seems that regardless of whatever bar tint color you put in, you are unable to get vivid colors under translucency.
Updated with solution.
Here's the solution that I ended up coming up with. I took aprato's solution and then encompassed the custom UINavigationBar within a UINavigationController subclass. I have created a repository that has this implementation listed below, along with an example app.
////////////////////////////
// CRNavigationBar.m
////////////////////////////
#import "CRNavigationBar.h"
#interface CRNavigationBar ()
#property (nonatomic, strong) CALayer *colorLayer;
#end
#implementation CRNavigationBar
static CGFloat const kDefaultColorLayerOpacity = 0.5f;
static CGFloat const kSpaceToCoverStatusBars = 20.0f;
- (void)setBarTintColor:(UIColor *)barTintColor {
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.colorLayer == nil) {
self.colorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.colorLayer.opacity = kDefaultColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer addSublayer:self.colorLayer];
}
self.colorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
}
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.colorLayer != nil) {
self.colorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - kSpaceToCoverStatusBars, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + kSpaceToCoverStatusBars);
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.colorLayer atIndex:1];
}
}
#end
////////////////////////////
// CRNavigationController.m
////////////////////////////
#import "CRNavigationController.h"
#import "CRNavigationBar.h"
#interface CRNavigationController ()
#end
#implementation CRNavigationController
- (id)init {
self = [super initWithNavigationBarClass:[CRNavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if(self) {
// Custom initialization here, if needed.
}
return self;
}
- (id)initWithRootViewController:(UIViewController *)rootViewController {
self = [super initWithNavigationBarClass:[CRNavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if(self) {
self.viewControllers = #[rootViewController];
}
return self;
}
#end
iOS 7.0.3 UPDATE: As you see above 7.0.3 changed things. I've updated my gist. Hopefully this will just go away as people upgrade.
Original Answer:
I ended up with a hack combining the two of the other answers. I'm subclassing UINavigationBar and adding a layer to the back with some extra space to cover if any of the various height status bars are up. The layer gets adjusted in layout subviews and the color changes whenever you set barTintColor.
Gist: https://gist.github.com/aprato/6631390
setBarTintColor
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.extraColorLayer == nil) {
self.extraColorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = self.extraColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer addSublayer:self.extraColorLayer];
}
self.extraColorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
layoutSubviews
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.extraColorLayer != nil) {
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = self.extraColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1];
CGFloat spaceAboveBar = self.frame.origin.y;
self.extraColorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - spaceAboveBar, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + spaceAboveBar);
}
The behavior of tintColor for bars has changed on iOS 7.0. It no longer affects the bar's background and behaves as described for the tintColor property added to UIView. To tint the bar's background, please use -barTintColor.You can use following code to make the app work with both ios6 and ios7.
if(IS_IOS7)
{
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
}
else
{
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
}
IS_IOS7 is a macro which is defined in pch file as follows.
#define IS_IOS7 ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion floatValue] >= 7.0)
I didn't come up with this solution but it seems to work fairly well. I just added it to viewDidLoad on my subclass of UINavigationController.
Source: https://gist.github.com/alanzeino/6619253
// cheers to #stroughtonsmith for helping out with this one
UIColor *barColour = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.13f green:0.14f blue:0.15f alpha:1.00f];
UIView *colourView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.f, -20.f, 320.f, 64.f)];
colourView.opaque = NO;
colourView.alpha = .7f;
colourView.backgroundColor = barColour;
self.navigationBar.barTintColor = barColour;
[self.navigationBar.layer insertSublayer:colourView.layer atIndex:1];
One low-fi way would probably be pinning a UIView that is the height of the Navigation Bar to the top of the view behind the bar. Make that view the same color as the navigation bar but play with the alpha until you get the desired effects:
UIView *backgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, CGRectGetWidth(self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame), 64)];
backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:1 alpha:.5];
[self.navigationController.view insertSubview:backgroundView belowSubview:self.navigationController.navigationBar];
UIView behind
(Changed color from lower examples to emphasis transparency. Transparency/blurring is more noticeable when in movement.)
Subclassing the UINavigationBar and placing that same view above the background but behind everything else will probably achieve similar results while being less hacky.
Another solution I've seen tossed around is playing with the alpha of the UINavigationBar:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.alpha = 0.5f;
Edit: Actually, after testing it seems like this doesn't provide the intend behavior (or any behavior):
.8 alpha
Unadjusted alpha
Obviously, you will only want to do this on iOS 7 devices. So, add some version check before you implement any of these.
Instead of creating your UIColor object in the RGB format, use HSB and increase the saturation parameter. (Credits to Sam Soffes who describes this method here)
navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor colorWithHue:0.555f saturation:1.f brightness:0.855f alpha:1.f];
Note: This solution is a tradeoff and doesn't work well for colors with high saturation.
To pick the HSB color from your design you can use a tool like ColorSnapper which allows you to simply copy the UIColor HSB format.
You can also try the UIColor Category (GitHub Link) from David Keegan to modify existing colors.
The problem has now been fixed by Apple in the new 7.0.3 release.
I used #aprato's solution but found a few corner cases where the new layers from new VCs (eg. UINavigationItemButtonViews, UINavigationItemViews, etc) would be automatically inserted into a position below the extraColorLayer (which would cause those title or button elements to be affected by the extraColorLayer and thus fainter in color than they normally would be). So I adjusted #aprato's solution to force the extraColorLayer to stay at the index position 1. At index position 1, the extraColorLayer stays right above the _UINavigationBarBackground, but underneath everything else.
Here's my class implementation:
- (void)setBarTintColor:(UIColor *)barTintColor
{
[super setBarTintColor:barTintColor];
if (self.extraColorLayer == nil)
{
self.extraColorLayer = [CALayer layer];
self.extraColorLayer.opacity = kDefaultColorLayerOpacity;
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
self.extraColorLayer.backgroundColor = barTintColor.CGColor;
}
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
if (self.extraColorLayer != nil)
{
self.extraColorLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0 - kSpaceToCoverStatusBars, CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds), CGRectGetHeight(self.bounds) + kSpaceToCoverStatusBars);
}
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view aboveSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview
{
[super insertSubview:view aboveSubview:siblingSubview];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view atIndex:(NSInteger)index
{
[super insertSubview:view atIndex:index];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view belowSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview
{
[super insertSubview:view belowSubview:siblingSubview];
[self.extraColorLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:self.extraColorLayer atIndex:1]; // This way the text comes out clear
}
I've improved your code in my fork: https://github.com/allenhsu/CRNavigationController
With my modification, the result color on screen (picked on white background) will be exactly the same value passed into setBarTintColor. I think it's an amazing solution.
None of these hacks are required :). Simply set:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
For iOS 7, the default translucency has been kept to TRUE.
On a related note, you can set your title text color (with shadow) easily via:
NSShadow *titleShadow = [[NSShadow alloc] init];
titleShadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, -1.0f);
titleShadow.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
NSDictionary *navbarTitleTextAttributes = #{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor],
NSShadowAttributeName: titleShadow};
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:navbarTitleTextAttributes];
I came across this Q/A while trying to setup an uniformly colored navigation bar with transparency DISABLED on iOS 7.
After experimenting a while with barTintColor I figured out that a very easy way of having an opaque navigation bar is to make a single pixel image of the desired color, make a stretchable image out of it, and setting it to the backgroundImage of the navigation bar.
UIImage *singlePixelImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"singlePixel.png"];
UIImage *resizableImage = [singlePixelImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
[navigationBar setBackgroundImage:resizableImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Three lines of code, very simple and works BOTH on iOS 6 and iOS 7 (barTintColor is unsupported on iOS 6).
Theres a great Dropin UINavigationController replacement available from Simon Booth available at GitHub Here GitHub - C360NavigationBar
If you're backward supporting iOS6 do a check on the root view controller as such:
PatientListTableViewController *frontViewController = [[PatientListTableViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navViewController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNavigationBarClass:[C360NavigationBar class] toolbarClass:nil];
if ([navViewController.view respondsToSelector:#selector(setTintColor:)]) {
//iOS7
[navViewController.view setTintColor:self.navBarTintColor];
[[C360NavigationBar appearance] setItemTintColor:self.navBarItemTintColor];
} else {
//iOS6
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque animated:NO];
navViewController.navigationBar.tintColor = self.navBarTintColor;
}
[navViewController pushViewController:frontViewController animated:NO];
self.window.rootViewController = navViewController;
As #bernhard mentioned above it's possible to saturate the bar tint color to get desired navigation bar appearance.
I wrote an BarTintColorOptimizer utility for that kind of adjustment. It optimizes translucent bar tint color to make the bar's actual color match the desired color in iOS 7.x and later. Look at this answer for details.
Frankly speaking, above answers might be right but following trick worked for me with very ease.
// this is complete 100% transparent image
self.imageBlack = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"0102_BlackNavBG"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 2, 0, 2)
resizingMode:UIImageResizingModeStretch];
// this is non-transparent but iOS7
// will by default make it transparent (if translucent is set to YES)
self.imageRed = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"0102_RedNavBG"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 2, 0, 2)
resizingMode:UIImageResizingModeStretch];
// some navigation controller
[nvCtrLeft.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:self.imageRed
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
// some another navigation controller
[nvCtrCenter.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:self.imageRed
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Here are the images used for self.imageRed and self.imageBlack.
< > black image is in this brackets won't be visible as it is transparent :)
< > red image is in this brackets.
is there a way to use #aprato solution without subclassing UINavigationBar.
In my project my main view is a UIViewController.
the problem is that the navigationController is a readonly property, is there a way to use you class with my project because i can't use : [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNavigationBarClass:
thanks
An easy way to get the color you want is using
[<NAVIGATION_BAR> setBackgroundImage:<UIIMAGE> forBarPosition:<UIBARPOSITION> barMetrics:<UIBARMETRICS>];
As long as your image has some alpha, the translucency will work and you can set the alpha by changing the image. This was just added in iOS7. The width and height for the image are 640x88px for vertical (add 20 to the 88 if you want it to be underneath the status bar).