This is what I am doing. I have a tabBarControllerOne with 5 tabs. On clicking one of the tabs, I present a modal view controller, which has a navigationBar and a TabBarControllerTwo (with 3 tabs). These three tabs are the matter for concern here.
In the 5th Tab of tabBarController I show modalViewController as
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:self.nextTabView];
// navController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
navController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve;
NSLog(#"Displauing the navcontroller before pushing %#", navController);
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:NO];
Here, nextTabView is a tabBarController with 3 tabs. The views work. In the views, if I try something like.
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
[self.navigationController pushViewController: someController animated:YES];
// nothing works.
If I NSLog, it displays self.navigationController as (null)
Can someone tell me why this is not working ?
Embedding a UITabBarController inside a UINavigationController is not supported. Apple has a careful hierarchy of container view controllers, and a UITabBarController must be the root of its view controller hierarchy.
Additionally, as Joe points out, your views don't belong to the navigation controller; they belong to the tab bar controller, so their navigationController property is not set.
The modal view controller does not belong to a UINavigationController stack therefore the property is not set. You will want to use delegation to notify the creating controller when something is selected then that controller can properly push the next controller on to the stack.
UIViewController Reference:
Discussion
Only returns a navigation controller if the view controller
is in its stack. This property is nil if a navigation controller
cannot be found.
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How can one present a UINavigationController such that the view it was presented from is still visible in the background?
My experience is that the UINavigationController will clip anything below its view, so setting UINavigationController.view.alpha will uncover a fixed color background, not the presenting view's content.
Can this be changed?
EDIT
I am not interested in the navigation bar, but the full content the navigation controller manages.
The problem is not the UINavigationController, but the fact that you present it modally. ViewControllers presented modally can never be transparent.
You can fake a modal presentation by adding you UINavigationControllers view as a subview to the main UIWindow.
This example works for me when testing in XCode:
UIViewController *viewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
viewController.view.backgroundColor = [[UIColor greenColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.35];
UINavigationController *navCon = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController];
[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] addSubview:navCon.view];
Of course you will have to do any animated transition yourself, but that should be trivial using animation blocks.
There is now a way to achieve this using the iOS7 custom transitions, this way :
MyController * controller = [MyController new];
[controller setTransitioningDelegate:self.transitionController];
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCustom;
[self controller animated:YES completion:nil];
To create your custom transition, you need 2 things :
A TransitionDelegate object (implementing
<UIViewControllerTransitionDelegate>)
An "AnimatedTransitioning" object
(implementing <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)
You can find more informations on custom transitions in this tutorial : http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/09/ios-7-custom-transitions/
if you wish this behavior you can not use a UINavigationController, as you say the navigation controller clip the view of the content controller. To do what you want you should add a navigator bar to your view instead, and simulate the actions of the navigation controller. To create a back button similar to the controller read this article
I'm trying to add some navigation controller in my app, it's sth likes:
in my index page view controller, I try to initialize the navigation controller like this:
-(void)viewDidLoad{
...
//allocate a navigation controller.
myNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc]init];
myNavigationController.delegate = self;
myNavigationController.navigationBar.hidden = YES;
[self.view addSubview:myNavigationController.view];
[myNavigationController pushViewController:tabViewController animated:YES];
[self presentModalViewController:myNavigationController animated:YES];
}
Here, index page view controller is the root view controller of my app, it's just a common UIViewController here.
[myNavigationController pushViewController:tabViewController animated:YES];
The tabViewController here I've pushed into the navigation controller is a custom tabview controller which makes use of a container view to hold the tab button and also holds an navigation controller for tab switching.
The problem here is:
myNavigationController.navigationBar.hidden = YES;
since I've make the navigation bar invisible, it doesn't show when my custom view controller shows, but when I'd like to switch to some other view controller with the navigation controller and I also want the navigation bar visible:
myNavigationController.navigationBar.hidden = NO;
MyViewController *toSwitchNC = [[MyViewController alloc]init];
[myNavigationController pushViewController:toSwitchNC animated:YES];
The navigation bar would never show any more. I've also tried to put:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.hidden = NO
in MyViewController's viewDidLoad, ViewDidAppear or even in the navigation controller's delegate method, it didn't show the navigation bar neither.
So what's wrong with it? Why I initialized the navigation bar to be invisible at first, it will never show again even I set the hidden flag to be false?
Okay, I've got this fixed by removing the navigation controller container in my index page view controller. This might be a stupid question, since apple've formally stated in the developer document that the navigation view controller should be place as root as possible in the view stack. Since IOS is a closed system, who knows WTH is going on under-beneath except Apple.
For the impatient:
I want to have a navigationcontroller who's root viewcontroller is a tabbarcontroller, similar to the iPad application. I am using IOS 5 and Storyboards.
For the reading inclined:
In my storyboard I have 6 tabs in a UITabBarController that is embeded in a UINavigationController, giving it a "More" button after 3 tabs are shown.
doing so gives me two navigation bars when more is pressed:
So I subclass TabBarController:
//#implentation MyTabController
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
self.moreNavigationController.wantsFullScreenLayout = NO;
self.delegate = self;
}
- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
// hide nav bar if current controller is "More" controller
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden =
viewController == self.moreNavigationController;
}
Great, this gives me:
My guess was that i needed to relayout the views to account for the statusbar, so i try
[self.view setNeedsLayout:YES];
but i get an error saying UIView does not contain a selector for setNeedsLayout so...
How do I get the moreNavigationController.navigationBar to account for the statusbar?
Update:
I have a second related issue with this. When I hit the "Edit" button the edit controller shows modally. Its navigationbar displays underneath the insured controller (after an animation), and does not receive touches.
Pushing a tabBarController into a NavController isn't recommended, instead set a NavigatorController for every tabBar View controller, and set the TabBarController as the main window root view controller.
If you want to be able to show a screen before showing the tabbar, a solution is to push in all the navigator controllers the previous view controller, followed by the one you want to show (that way all navbars has the backbutton). Then set hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES to the first view controller, that way it won't show the tabBar.
Example Code:
UIViewController *prevc = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
//prevc.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
//Do this for every VC that will be a tabBarItem
UIViewController *vc1 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *nv1 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:prevc];
[nv1 pushViewController:vc1 animated:NO];
//Remember to set the tabBarItem!
UITabBarController *tb = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tb.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:nv1, nv2, nv3, nil];
I just realized that setting hidesBottomBarWhenPushed to the previous ViewController won't work well, but If you show prevc first, and then push the following viewController, you won't have problems. But if anyway you wan't to hide the tab bar while doing a pop, please check this:
hidesBottomBarWhenPushed but when popped
I have also faced a similar problem. In my application also, there is a Tabarcontroller inside a Navigation controller. When i try to switch to a view controller in more navigation controller programatically (like : [self.tabBarController setSelectedIndex:X]; ) the same issues appears in my application. But the following code solves my problem.
self.tabBarController.moreNavigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
I am showing a modal view which is a UITableViewController class. For some reason it won't show the navigation bar when I show it. Here is my code:
SettingsCreateAccount *detailViewController = [[SettingsCreateAccount alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
detailViewController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
detailViewController.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = NO;
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
detailViewController = nil;
[detailViewController release];
I thought it was shown by default? If it helps, I am calling this from another class that is also a UITableViewController managed by a UINavigationController. Ideas?
When you present a modal view controller it does not use any existing navigation controllers or navigation bars. If all you want is to display a navigation bar, you need to add the navigation bar as a subview of your modal view and present it as you're doing.
If you want to present a modal view controller with navigation functionality, you need to present a modal navigation controller containing your detail view controller instead, like so:
SettingsCreateAccount *detailViewController = [[SettingsCreateAccount alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:detailViewController];
[detailViewController release];
navController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];
[navController release];
Your modal controller will manage its own navigation stack.
Here is one way to display navigation bar for those who are using storyboards, suggested by Apple's Tutorial on Storyboard.
Because a modal view controller doesn’t get added to the navigation stack, it doesn’t get a navigation bar from the table view controller’s navigation controller. To give the view controller a navigation bar when presented modally, embed it in its own navigation controller.
In the outline view, select View Controller.
With the view controller selected, choose Editor > Embed In > Navigation Controller.
On iOS 7 and you just want a navigation bar on your modal view controller to show a title and some buttons? Try this magic in your UITableViewController:
// in the .h
#property (strong) UINavigationBar* navigationBar;
//in the .m
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.navigationItem.title = #"Awesome";
self.navigationBar = [[UINavigationBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
[self.view addSubview:_navigationBar];
[self.navigationBar pushNavigationItem:self.navigationItem animated:NO];
}
-(void)layoutNavigationBar{
self.navigationBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.tableView.contentOffset.y, self.tableView.frame.size.width, self.topLayoutGuide.length + 44);
self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(self.navigationBar.frame.size.height, 0, 0, 0);
}
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
//no need to call super
[self layoutNavigationBar];
}
-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews{
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
[self layoutNavigationBar];
}
I want to share how the accepted solution can be used in projects with storyboards:
The simple approach is to put in a storyboard blank navigation controller before the VC which is to be presented modally, so the relations look like:
(Presenter VC) -> presents modally -> (navigation controller having a controller to be presented as its root).
We've tried this approach for a while and noticed that our storyboards become "polluted" by a large number of such intermediate navigation controllers when each! of them is used exclusively for one! presentation of some other controller, that we want to be presented modally with navigation bar.
Our current solution is to encapsulate the code from accepted answer to a custom segue:
#import "ModalPresentationWithNavigationBarSegue.h"
#implementation ModalPresentationWithNavigationBarSegue
- (void)perform {
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:self.destinationViewController];
[self.sourceViewController presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
#end
Having this segue in our project we do not create intermediate navigation controllers in our storyboards anymore, we just use this ModalPresentationWithNavigationBarSegue like:
Presenter VC --> Presentee VC
I hope that this answer will be helpful to people who like to avoid unnecessary duplication in their apps storyboards.
I just wanted to add something to what #Scott said. His answer is definitely the easiest and most accepted way of doing it now with Storyboards, iOS 7 and 8... (and soon, 9).
Definitely adding a view controller to the Storyboard and Embedding it as described by #Scott is the right way to go.
Then, just add the segue by control-dragging from the source view controller to the target (the one you want to show modally), select "Present Modally" when the little view appears with the choices for the type of segue. Probably good to give it a name too (in the example below I use "presentMyModalViewController").
One thing that I needed that was missing is #Scott's case is when you want to actually pass on some data to that modally-presented view controller that is embedded in the navigation controller.
If you grab the segue.destinationViewController, it will be a UINavigationController, not the controller you embedded in the UINavigationController.
So, to get at the embedded view controller inside the navigation controller, here's what I did:
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"presentMyModalViewController"]) {
// This could be collapsed, but it's a little easier to see
// what's going on written out this way.
// First get the destination view controller, which will be a UINavigationController
UINavigationController *nvc = (UINavigationController *)segue.destinationViewController;
// To get the view controller we're interested in, grab the navigation controller's "topViewController" property
MyModalViewController *vc = (EmailReceiptViewController *)[nvc topViewController];
// Now that we have the reference to our view controller, we can set its properties here:
vc.myAwesomeProperty = #"awesome!";
}
}
Hope this helps!
If you only need a NavigationBar, you can add an instance of UINavigationBar and assign BarItems to it.
Okay, I understand how to work delegation in a modal view to send a message to the parentviewcontroller but what if I wanted to do that with 2 views that dont have that parent-child relationship?
I have a navigation controller that flips over a modal view and then that modal view pushes a new view controller. How do I let that pushed view controller talk to the navigation controller. The modal view code that I have been using places this in the parent:
-(IBAction)pressedUnitAddy {
UnitAddyView *unitVC = [[UnitAddyView alloc] init];
unitVC.delegate = self;
UINavigationController* theNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:unitVC];
theNavController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStylePartialCurl;
[self presentModalViewController:theNavController animated:YES];
[unitVC release];
[theNavController release];
}
-(void)didDismissUnitAddyView {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
....and then I call the didDismissUnitAddyView from the UnitAddyView. Now, I am not trying to dismiss any views with what I am trying to do but I do want that pushed view controller to be able to speak to the navigation controller. How would I do that?
View controllers have a property, navigationController, that is nil if they're not pushed onto a navigation controller and is a pointer to the navigation if they are. Does that answer your question?
All I was trying to do was to reload the data on the nav controller screen. The UIViewController and the nav controller we not directly connected - they were separated through a modalview. All I did, and I should have thought of this earlier, was set the modal view's delegate to the nav controller and to call a method to reload the nav controller when the modal view is dismissed.