I am new on iOS Development and during my works for an app I am building right now some doubts have appeared to me. I am trying to build a Screen that will be compounded by multiple ViewControllers, but on the NavigationBar I would like to have a UiSegmentedControl above the Title, something like a Scope Bar to control the navigation between the children ViewController. I wanted to build something similar to what we have on HealthKit Dashboard:
.
What kind of approach do you suggest to do that? I understand that some questions have already been done about it, but after a long research I have not got to a conclusion.
During my research I noticed that a UISearchBar
on the NavigationBar ( to build the Scope Bar ) is only possible for UITableViewControllers
, Am I right? So I think that can not be an approach.
My next idea was to use a UISegmentedControl
placed manually below the NavigationBar and then use the Containment Api to change to the different ViewControllers for this Screen. The problem here, is I will have to duplicate the UISegmentedControl
on all children ViewControllers. Is there any way to not have to duplicate that?
Another approach I tried was doing my own titleView for the NavigationBar with a NavigationBar and a UISegmentedControl
below. I don’t like this idea, neither it went well trying to replicate the NavigationBar.
Finally, another approach I thought was using a UIPageViewController
. Although this approach sounds a good idea to me, I think I will also have to duplicate the UISegmentedControl
.
In the end I think the best solution is to have a UISegmentControl
on the NavigationBar, but I am not seeing how to implement this.
What do you think is the best approach to accomplish my ideia? I thought that it would be easy because it is a pattern I see in many apps. Any suggestions?
I am doing this on XCode 6.1.1 using Swift for iOS 8.
Thanks a lot for your help.