UINavigationBar bleeding its background when PageSheet is animating - swift

My application has a UIViewController where uses the new .pageSheet modal presentation style introduced on iOS 13.
This UIViewController has a UINavigationBar on the top and it's pinned, by constraints, at the top, leading and trailing.
I noticed that the background from this view bleeds in white while the UIViewController is animating. Take a look on this recorded GIF from a real device:
Is there anything I can do to solve this? The UIViewController and UINavigationBar were created programatically.
Maybe doing this can solve it?
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
var originalFrame = frame
frame = originalFrame
}
I am using Swift 5.1 and Xcode 11.3. The iPhone is running iOS 13.1.3.

Probably you set the view's layer to rasterize, this is making with the .pageSheet animation not draw it correctly.
The solution, remove the code below:
navigationBar.layer.shouldRasterize = true
navigationBar.layer.rasterizationScale = UIScreen.main.scale

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I've found a (hacky) solution that works in iOS 14 (untested in other versions). It makes an assumption about the private view structure of UINavigationBar, so there's no guarantee that it will work in future iOS versions, but it's unlikely to crash - the worst that should happen is that the bar will fail to hide, or only partially hide.
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override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// this hides the bar initially
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews.first?.alpha = 0
}
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guard let navigationController = self.navigationController else { return }
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let alpha = (scrollView.contentOffset.y + navBarHeight + threshold) / threshold
navigationController.navigationBar.subviews.first?.alpha = alpha
}
The magic threshold value is a little hard to explain, but it's basically the distance from the bar at which the fade in will start. A value of 20 means the bar starts to fade in when the scrollView content is 20 points away. A value of 0 would mean the bar snaps straight from fully transparent to fully opaque the moment the scrollView content touches it.

Swift iOS -How to Add Subview to Window's Center?

I have an activity indicator that gets presented on an iPhone and iPad. In the iPad in split screen mode it gets presented to whichever side of the view that called it. I would instead like it to get presented in the middle/center the window's screen. If I do it this way wether on the iPhone in portrait or iPad in split screen mode it will always be in the center of the screen.
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#IBAction fileprivate func buttonPressed(_ sender: UIButton) {
guard let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow else { return }
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actInd.startAnimating()
}
}
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window.addSubview(actInd)
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IBDesignable View - need ViewController at design time

I'm creating an IBDesignable component so that I can see the component render live in the Xcode storyboard. The component is simply a composition of other components. Unfortunately, one of those components requires a UIViewController to function properly. Yes, bad, but I have no control over it.
The component works fine running in the app, but does not render properly at design time because the UIViewController for that scene is not available. I have tried
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creating an IBOutlet on the component and connecting it to the View
Controller in the storyboard
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sample:
import UIKit
#IBDesignable
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super.layoutSubviews()
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layer.borderColor = UIColor.baseInstagram.cgColor
layer.borderWidth = 0.66
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I've used a custom UINavigationController class to put a colour gradient across the navbar. The custom navclass determines the frame size of the navbar, then puts the gradient inside. Problem is, when I rotate from portrait to landscape, the gradient only fills the portrait portion of the landscape bar. I've only assigned the custom UINavigationController class to the navigation view in the storyboard.
So I'm guessing I somehow need to call a refresh for the frame size in the custom navclass when a rotation is done, but I'm not sure how or where?
Here's the relevant code snippet, from the override func viewDidLoad() of the custom navclass.
let gradientlayer = CAGradientLayer()
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Right part of UIScrollView doesn't work in Landscape mode

Using the Interface Builder, I created a view with a UIScrollView in it.
I programmaticly add the buttons to the empty UIScrollView.
When the orientation changes, I use
- (void) willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration
to call a method that resets the buttons on screen.
After that, the uiScrollView-content gets a new size using setContentSize.
No matter the width of the ContentSize, I can only interact (scroll/or tap a button) on the first 320px of the screen - which is the screen width in portrait mode.
When I set the contentSize-width to 2000, I can scroll to the left, but only with my fingers on the first 320 px instead of the full 480 (using a 3.5 inch iPhone).
What am I missing?
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In the UIViewController the popup was created as followed
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super.layoutSubviews()
self.setNeedsDisplay()
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view.frame = mainScreenBounds
super.frame = mainScreenBounds <-- Need to update the parent
** perform additional rotation/orientation code here **
}