Force scope bar below UISearchBar - iphone

I have a UISearchBar and UISearchDisplayController, everything works great but my scope selector displays beside the text field instead of below it. I know that this is the expected action when the device is in landscape, but since I have the UISearchBar in the master view of a UISplitViewController it ends up looking like this:
Is there any way to force the scope bar to display below the text field in all interface orientations (I know that this works nicely in Mail.app on the iPad, so its possibly, but who knows if Apple decided to hide the option to do so)

This is not part of the public API. Hopefully it will be added in the future. It can be accomplished using Private APIs, looking through a UIKit class dump will help you there.
Good luck!
edit: Note that using private APIs can get you rejected from the app store, as most people already know.

I used the UISearchDisplayDelegate to show and hide the scope bar.
-(void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
[controller.searchBar setShowsScopeBar:YES];
}
-(void)searchDisplayControllerWillEndSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
[controller.searchBar setShowsScopeBar:NO];
}

Don't use private APIs. Instead, follow Apple's recommendation from IOS User Interface Guidelines:
When a search bar is present, a scope bar can appear near it. The
scope bar displays below the search bar, regardless of orientation,
unless you use a search display controller in your code (for more
information on the way this works, see UISearchDisplayController Class
Reference). When you use a search display controller, the scope bar is
displayed within the search bar to the right of the search field when
the device is in landscape orientation (in portrait orientation, it’s
below the search bar).
This worked for me using storyboards.

Why not just set up your search bar programattically? Here's what I'm using on my current project. It hides the search bar until the user scrolls up, and the scope bar is loaded below the text field when they start typing items. From there just filter as usual:
- (void)setupSearchBar {
self.searchBar = [[UISearchBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, 44)];
self.searchBar.showsScopeBar = YES;
self.searchBar.scopeButtonTitles = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Users", #"Groups", nil];
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = self.searchBar;
CGPoint offset = CGPointMake(0, self.searchBar.frame.size.height);
self.tableView.contentOffset = offset;
self.searchController = [[UISearchDisplayController alloc] initWithSearchBar:self.searchBar
contentsController:self];
self.searchController.searchResultsDataSource = self;
self.searchController.searchResultsDelegate = self;
self.searchController.delegate = self;
}
call [self setupSearchBar]; in viewDidLoad you're off to the races.

Related

Moving status bar in iOS 7

The problem I'm facing is this:
I want to implement an iOS 7 app with nice design and left/right menu, which appears after the main view animate itself to the right/left. I'm doing this with [UIView animateWithDuration...] code, but that's not really important. What I want to achieve is the same effect the Mailbox iOS 7 app has: to move the status bar away (to the right/left) with the main view
Image for better explanation:
What I only found is this article about the issue, with some working code using Private APIs, which I'd like not to use, since I want my app to be accepted on the App Store.
I'd like to achieve the same effect ('legally'). Does anybody knows how to?
Thanks!
The gist of it is to use this method introduced in iOS 7:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiscreen/1617814-snapshotview:
With that you get a UIView containing a screenshot that includes the status bar. Once you have that, it's just a matter of hiding your current view then pushing the screenshot view around.
I posted a proof of concept here:
https://github.com/simonholroyd/StatusBarTest
NOTE I haven't submitted code that does this through the Apple review process, but this is not a private API method.
So, after the initial push by Mr. Simon Holroyd and some searching, I've found the solution of how to achieve this "effect" functionality. This is the code:
statusbarView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20)];
EDIT: mister pcholberg correctly pointed out that the former code did not work on the actual device, only on the iOS Simulator, so I've edited it by his recommendation
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(#"7.0"))
{
UIView *screenShot = [[UIScreen mainScreen] snapshotViewAfterScreenUpdates:NO];
[statusbarView addSubview:screenShot];
[statusbarView setClipsToBounds:YES];
[self.view addSubview:statusbarView];
[self setPrefersStatusBarHidden:YES];
[self prefersStatusBarHidden];
[self performSelector:#selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
}
...
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
return prefersStatusBarHidden;
}
...
So the first part creates context, uses the method Simon mentioned, draws the view with the statusbar, and saves that as an UIImage
The second part adds the snapshot UIView to my viewController's UIView
And the third part sets my bool for statusbar to YES (for easier use in the method above), and calls methods to redraw it
This then sets the UIView as not-functional statusbar at its place and hides the original one, so there is no double-rendering. Then I can use this view in my [UIView animateWithDuration... method
And when I return, I use this code in the completion handler of the animation block:
[statusbarView removeFromSuperview];
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(#"7.0"))
{
[self setPrefersStatusBarHidden:NO];
[self prefersStatusBarHidden];
[self performSelector:#selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
}
And voilá! This works as the described effect in my question.
Hope this helps somebody!
I use this method to move statuebar with slider view,in a application there are two window,one normal window,other statuBarWindow,i get statuBarView which superView is statuBarWindows ,and move it with slider view.
- (UIView *)statuBarView
{
NSString *key = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[NSData dataWithBytes:(unsigned char []){0x73, 0x74, 0x61, 0x74, 0x75, 0x73, 0x42, 0x61, 0x72} length:9] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
id object = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
UIView *statusBar = nil;
if ([object respondsToSelector:NSSelectorFromString(key)]) {
statusBar = [object valueForKey:key];
}
return statusBar;
}
I just created BSPanViewController which makes it extremely easy to achieve this effect. The control and instructions on how to use it can be found on GitHub.
The implementation is the same as the one explained by Simon Holroyd.
In my experience, App Store reviewers generally don't care about private API's use, especially this simple and harmless.
For the task you can get a pointer to application's status bar view through several methods, which you can find in iOS complete headers like https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers

UIPopoverController for iphone not working?

I need to use a UIPopOverController for my iPhone app ,i searched stackoverflow someone said UIPopoverController does not run on iphone iphone device WHY?.when i run on iphone device
i got this error reason: '-[UIPopoverController initWithContentViewController:]
called when not running under UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad.'
-(void)btnSetRemainderTapped:(UIButton *)button
{
setReminderView =[[SetRemainderView alloc]initWithNibName:#"SetRemainderView" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
setReminderView.contentSizeForViewInPopover = CGSizeMake(setReminderView.view.frame.size.width, setReminderView.view.frame.size.height);
setReminderView.delegate = self;
popOverController = [[UIPopoverController alloc]
initWithContentViewController:setReminderView] ;
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width/2, self.view.frame.size.height/2, 1, 1);
[popOverController presentPopoverFromRect:rect
inView:self.view
permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny
animated:YES];
}
can any one help me?
You CAN use popoverController in iPhone apps.
1. Create a category
// UIPopoverController+iPhone.h file
#interface UIPopoverController (iPhone)
+ (BOOL)_popoversDisabled;
#end
// UIPopoverController+iPhone.m file
#implementation UIPopoverController (iPhone)
+ (BOOL)_popoversDisabled {
return NO;
}
#end
2. Import it to your class and use popover in iPhone as usual.
But remember that this is private method and Apple can reject your app. But I know people who use this normally and Apple published their apps.
Edit: As stated by Soberman, since iOS 8 it is possible to present popovers on iPhone using public APIs, so this answer is probably not relevant anymore.
As stated in Apple's documentation on UIPopoverController:
Popover controllers are for use exclusively on iPad devices.
So there is no way to use this class in iPhone application unfortunately. But there are a couple of custom third-party implementations of the functionality provided by UIPopoverController which add iPhone support and more. See https://github.com/50pixels/FPPopover for example.
Edit: There also is another highly customizable popover implementation for both iPhone/iPad worth checking out: https://github.com/nicolaschengdev/WYPopoverController.
Since iOS8 we are now able to create popovers, that will be the same on iPhone, as on iPad, which would be especially awesome for those who make universal apps, thus no need to make separate views or code.
You can get the class as well as demo project here: https://github.com/soberman/ARSPopover
All you need to do is subclass UIViewController, conform to the UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate protocol and set desired modalPresentationStyle along with the delegate value:
// This is your CustomPopoverController.m
#interface CustomPopoverController () <UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate>
#end
#implementation CustomPopoverController.m
- (instancetype)init {
if (self = [super init]) {
self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationPopover;
self.popoverPresentationController.delegate = self;
}
return self;
}
- (UIModalPresentationStyle)adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController:(UIPresentationController *)controller {
return UIModalPresentationNone; //You have to specify this particular value in order to make it work on iPhone.
}
Afterwards, instantiate your newly created subclass in the method from which you want to show it and assign two more values to sourceView and sourceRect. It looks like this:
CustomPopoverController *popoverController = [[CustomPopoverController alloc] init];
popoverController.popoverPresentationController.sourceView = sourceView; //The view containing the anchor rectangle for the popover.
popoverController.popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(384, 40, 0, 0); //The rectangle in the specified view in which to anchor the popover.
[self presentViewController:popoverController animated:YES completion:nil];
And there you have it, nice, neat blurred popover.
So #Sobermans answer didn't really solve the issue from start to finish for me so I want to detail how I got it done using the docs. That being said I do like the idea of using your own presentation controller subclass to manage all of the customisation you want to exhibit.
1. Create your controller to present
The first step is instantiating the controller you want to present:
let vc: UIViewController = ...
vc.modalPresentationStyle = .Popover
vc.preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: CGRectGetWidth(view.bounds)/2, height: 100)
Now we have a controller with the popover presentation style and an arbitrary content size.
2. Implement adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController
By default UIPopoverPresentationController will present on full screen on iPhone so to prevent this behaviour you need to force the adaptive presentation style to none.
First we set the delegate of the popover presentation controller
vc.popoverPresentationController.delegate = self;
Then we implement UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate
func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {
return .None;
}
3. Present and configure popup
First we need to call presentViewController and only after that can we configure the popover:
presentViewController(vc, animated:true, completion:nil)
if let popover = vc.popoverPresentationController {
popover.permittedArrowDirections = .Right | .Left
popover.sourceView = button
popover.sourceRect = button.bounds
}
Use a custom popover controller, such as:
https://github.com/sammcewan/WYPopoverController
(this seems to be the best supported one that I have found).
I ended up creating my custom tooltip/popover class.
Can be initalised with any content view and dynamically adjusts it's frame.
Hope it helps.
https://github.com/akeara/AKETooltip
If you want to do it in Swift, I believe the code is the following:
extension UIPopoverController {
class var _popoversDisabled : Bool {
get { return false }
}
}
Edit: It is working in Xcode 6 beta 4 on iPhone with iOs7.1
This is a really interesting (and depressing) thread to read. I can't believe Apple prevents popup dialogs on iPhones, with absolutely no justification.
And, it's true, on iOS 8, if you try to work around this limitation, it'll make your popups appear as a full-screen modal dialog.
The following excellent webpage describes "How Apple Cheats" to let its own iBooks and iTunes apps break its own rules, and allow popups - but just from within their own iPhone apps.
HowAppleCheats
Have a read (warning: it'll make you hate Apple & XCode even more..)
Want to get around the "UIPopoverController called when not running under UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad" error on iOS 8 ?
Simple.
Just go into your .plist file, and change the Bundle ID to "com.apple.itunesu" to make XCode think that your app is actually iTunes.
Then your popup will work fine.
(Sigh.)
The alternative way of doing this is to directly add your UIViewController to your screen.
In this example, I wanted a "helper screen" to appear on top of my iPhone screen. It's a UIViewController, it is stored in it's own .xib file, and it has a few lines to add a pretty border:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Give our popup a pretty curved border
self.view.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor blueColor] CGColor];
self.view.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
self.view.layer.cornerRadius = 8;
}
To display it, I simply create an instance of this UIViewController, add it to my screen, then center it:
-(void)showHelperScreen
{
if (self.helperScreen == nil)
{
// Add the popup UIViewController to our screen
self.helperScreen = [[HelperViewController alloc] init];
[self.view addSubview:self.helperScreen.view];
}
// Center the popup in the middle of the screen
CGSize screenSize = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame].size;
self.helperScreen.view.center = CGPointMake(screenSize.width/2, screenSize.height/2);
}
Of course, I also needed to add some code to make the popup disappear when the user taps outside of it, but this does at least show that you can (safely) display popups on an iPhone, even if your app isn't specifically called iTunes or iBook.
Voila.
Hope this helps, and if anyone needs me, I'll be back in my safe, happy place (Visual Studio, in other words).

Implementing my own navigation controller?

I have a tab bar app. Under one of the tabs i want a uisegmentedControl in the top navigation view, that controls what view is currently displayed. This is dead easy if i just exchange the view, but i want to do it in a more organized and generic way, by using one uiviewcontroller for each view and exchanging them in the most optimzed way.
i guess step one would be to know exactly what a tabbar controller sends to a navigation controller/view controller when a tab is changed, and work it out from there.
Can any one point me in the right direction?
Some time ago I stumbled upon SegmentsController which I found in this blog entry from red artisan.
I used it in conjunction with a UITabBarController, but without knowing I did it wrong. Not wrong as in "it crashs" or "it doesn't do what i want" but wrong in the sense that I have to forward each UIViewController call (like viewDidAppear, receivedMemoryWarning etc) to the child viewControllers. The app with the wrong code is still in the app store and I never received a complain about it.
But I played around a while and figured out how to use it right. It's a bit of a hassle but imho it's absolutely worth it.
I'll show you the correct version that I have right now, I'm creating the UITabBarController in Interface Builder so I have to change the tab in code. Which introduces another piece of mess, and maybe there is room for improvements. But right now I'm satisfied with this solution.
NSMutableArray *items = [self.tabBarController.viewControllers mutableCopy]; // tabs from tabbar configured in IB
// The two child vc that will appear in the segment control
SomeViewController_iPhone *tvcs = [[[SomeViewController_iPhone alloc] initWithNibName:#"SomeView_iPhone" bundle:nil] autorelease];
SomeOtherViewController_iPhone *tvct = [[[SomeOtherViewController_iPhone alloc] initWithNibName:#"SomeOtherView_iPhone" bundle:nil] autorelease];
NSArray *viewControllers1 = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:tvcs, tvct, nil];
// the nav controller acts as a wrapper around the child viewcontrollers
UINavigationController *navController1 = [[[UINavigationController alloc] init] autorelease];
navController1.tabBarItem.title = NSLocalizedString(#"FirstTab", nil);
navController1.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"tabImage1.png"];
navController1.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor navBarTintColor];
firstTabSegmentsController = [[SegmentsController alloc] initWithNavigationController:navController1 viewControllers:viewControllers1];
// uses a NSArray category that basically creates a NSArray that has the title properties of the vc in viewControllers1
firstTabSegmentedController = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[viewControllers1 arrayByPerformingSelector:#selector(title)]];
firstTabSegmentedController.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 222, 30);
firstTabSegmentedController.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;
firstTabSegmentedController.selectedSegmentIndex = 0;
[firstTabSegmentsController indexDidChangeForSegmentedControl:firstTabSegmentedController];
[firstTabSegmentedController addTarget:firstTabSegmentsController action:#selector(indexDidChangeForSegmentedControl:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
// replace first tab from interface builder with this
[items replaceObjectAtIndex:0 withObject:navController1];
as you see it needs a bit of setup, but in my opinion this solution is better than anything else I've tried throughout the time. I hope I de-NDAed the code correctly.
Edit: Uploaded a sample project: BeautifulColors.zip
Just exchanging the views and keeping up with the current view's viewController is the best way to implement a UISegmentedControl in this regard.
Note: by exchanging the views i mean adding a subview to the current view and removing the old one.
You might be interested in the method below, which is implemented by the UITabBarControllerDelegate
- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController;

Act on click of a button on the Nav Bar for moreNavigationController -- Can't pushviewcontroller

Okay, here is my issue: My app has a display of categories in the tab bar at the bottom of the iPhoneOS screen. This only allows 5 categories before it presents the MORE button. I have over 25 (please do not answer this by saying: "Rethink your application...etc" -- that was rudely said before. They are food, drink, etc categories and cannot be changed). I want to allow the user to put their favorites on the home page. The Apple moreNavigationController editing system only allows 20 tab bar items to be rearranged due to space constraints on the editing page. This is not enough so i need to implement my own Editing screen. I set the rightBarButtonItem to nil and created my own. Using NSLog, i can see the "click" happens when clicking the EDIT button, but I cannot push using pushViewController. Nothing happens. I think it has something to do with the navigationController I am addressing...but i am not sure. ps: This all happens in my App Delegate which DOES act as both UITabBarControllerDelegate & UINavigationControllerDelegate.
I tried to do the following:
- ( void )navigationController:( UINavigationController * )navigationController_local willShowViewController:( UIViewController * )viewController_local animated:( BOOL )animated
{
UIViewController * currentController = navigationController_local.visibleViewController;
UIViewController * nextController = viewController_local;
// Do whatever here.
NSLog(#"Nav contoller willShowViewController fired\n'%#'\n'%#'\nThere are currently: %d views on the stack\n",currentController,nextController,[self.navigationController.viewControllers count]);
if ( [nextController isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UIMoreListController")])
{
UINavigationBar *morenavbar = navigationController_local.navigationBar;
UINavigationItem *morenavitem = morenavbar.topItem;
morenavitem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;
NSLog(#"Is a UIMoreListController\n");
UIBarButtonItem *editTabBarButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Edit"
style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
target:self
action:#selector(editTabBar:)];
morenavitem.rightBarButtonItem = editTabBarButton;
[editTabBarButton release];
}
}
This works to place an EDIT button at the top right of the screen -- mimicking Apple's look and feel... but when that button is clicked, you cannot exit the darn moreNavigationController.
I have tried many things. UIAlerts work, etc...but pushing (or popping -- even popping to root view) a view controller on the stack does not.
- (void) editTabBar:(id)sender {
NSLog(#"clicked edit tabbar\n");
NSLog(#"Total count of controllers: %d\n",[self.navigationController.viewControllers count]);
TabBarViewController *tabBarViewController2 = [[TabBarViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"TabBarView" bundle:nil];
tabBarViewController2.navigationItem.title=#"Edit Tab Bar";
[self.navigationController pushViewController:tabBarViewController2 animated:YES];
[tabBarViewController2 release];
NSLog(#"finished edit tabbar\n");
}
If you click the edit button on the moreNavigationController's display page, you get the log entries like expected AND (this is strange) the views on the stack climbs -- but no page change occurs. I marked it down to not using the correct navigation controller...but I am lost on how to find which one TO use.
this is a weird one too. In the edit function if i just do this:
- (void) editTabBar:(id)sender {
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
}
It DOES take me home (to tabbarcontroller 0)
BUT doing this:
- (void) editTabBar:(id)sender {
[self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
does not work.
Does the moreNavigationController have some special quality that screws with the rest of the system?
I would try reimplementing the whole "More" functionality from scratch. In other words, store the four home tabs in your user defaults and add a dummy fifth tab that switches to your own complete reimplementation of the more view controller stack.
You could even write a lightweight subclass of UITabBarController that handled this for you.
UITabBarController is evil, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if MoreController had some special properties, too.
I have had success intercepting the More Controller in shouldSelectViewController to change the data source; you may be able to find some workaround there.
PS I am inclined to agree that you could consider redesigning your app so that you didn't need an unlimited number of viewControllers attached to the tab bar just to select categories; you might have better luck using a tool bar with a single, scrollable, custom view in it. If that's really the best way of picking categories for your app, of course.

navigationItem.prompt & UIImagePickerController

Is it possible to make calls to navigationItem on a UIImagePickerController? Specifically, the image picker? Below I've linked an image of what I'm trying to achieve ( screen shot taken from another app doing the same thing). Once the user selects an image from the picker the navigationItem.prompt is set and, though I think it might be a HIG violation, the right bar button is changed from the standard cancel button. I can set the prompt on a "normal" view no problem with:
self.navigationItem.prompt = myString;
But this does not seem to work when I try to use it in the context of a picker with:
myPicker.navigationItem.prompt = myString;
I've tried using it when the picker is created and also in didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo: which is really where I need to set it as I'm letting the user select multiple images instead of dismissing the picker as soon as one image is selected. Nothing seems to work.
Here's a image of the desired behavior:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f353/zoso5th/after.png
Someone answered this for me on the Apple dev forums:
UINavigationBar *bar = picker.navigationBar;
UINavigationItem *navItem = bar.topItem;
navItem.prompt = #"Some new prompt";
I wasn't correctly accessing the navbar.
Someone answered this for me on the Apple dev forums:
UINavigationBar *bar = picker.navigationBar;
UINavigationItem *navItem = bar.topItem;
navItem.prompt = #"Some new prompt";
I wasn't correctly accessing the navbar.
Use the code after calling 'presentModalViewController'.....like below...
[controller presentModalViewController:imagePickerController animated:YES];
UINavigationBar *bar = picker.navigationBar;
UINavigationItem *navItem = bar.topItem;
navItem.prompt = #"Some new prompt";