want to create a search bar like google in swift - swift

Question

I have an array like ["apple","appear","Azhar","code","BCom"] etc. This array contain more than half a million of records.
Now what I want to do, is to place a UISearchBar like in google and then whenever user types a text, then the dropdown list would appear with all the results containing this text and user could select one from the list.
For example - if the user types "a", then "apple","appear" and "Azhar" would appear in a drop-down list.
I don't want to use a UITableView or anything else to load the records. Whenever user types any word it should collect records from the array and make a drop down to display them.
How can I do this?
Suggestions required please.

Answer 1

Pretty simple code that would do the trick, the search bar filter is easy, as for the drop down menu i use a third party Pod named 'DropDown' that is very easy to use : https://github.com/AssistoLab/DropDown
import UIKit
import DropDown
class ViewController: UIViewController, UISearchBarDelegate {
var data: [String] = ["apple","appear","Azhar","code","BCom"]
var dataFiltered: [String] = []
var dropButton = DropDown()
#IBOutlet weak var searchBar: UISearchBar!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
dataFiltered = data
dropButton.anchorView = searchBar
dropButton.bottomOffset = CGPoint(x: 0, y:(dropButton.anchorView?.plainView.bounds.height)!)
dropButton.backgroundColor = .white
dropButton.direction = .bottom
dropButton.selectionAction = { [unowned self] (index: Int, item: String) in
print("Selected item: \(item) at index: \(index)") //Selected item: code at index: 0
}
}
func searchBar(_ searchBar: UISearchBar, textDidChange searchText: String) {
dataFiltered = searchText.isEmpty ? data : data.filter({ (dat) -> Bool in
dat.range(of: searchText, options: .caseInsensitive) != nil
})
dropButton.dataSource = dataFiltered
dropButton.show()
}
func searchBarTextDidBeginEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
searchBar.setShowsCancelButton(true, animated: true)
for ob: UIView in ((searchBar.subviews[0] )).subviews {
if let z = ob as? UIButton {
let btn: UIButton = z
btn.setTitleColor(UIColor.white, for: .normal)
}
}
}
func searchBarTextDidEndEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
}
func searchBarCancelButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
searchBar.text = ""
dataFiltered = data
dropButton.hide()
}
}