I want to place a UIView over the entire screen (including the navigation bar). This view will be black with 0.3 opacity. I want to do this to darken out the screen content and push a view on top of this. I am using this code:
UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.addSubview(darkView)
This covers the whole screen as expected. However I now want to place another view on top of this dark view. Is there a way to do this? Everything I try just results in the view being under the dark view. Any pointers would be really appreciated! thanks
It's really simple.
You just add another view to window
! And it will be there, on top of the first view you added. For example, this code adds a black view and a white view:
let window = UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow!
let v = UIView(frame: window.bounds)
window.addSubview(v);
v.backgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
let v2 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 100, height: 50))
v2.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
window.addSubview(v2)
You can also add the new view as a sub view of the first view you added:
let window = UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow!
let v = UIView(frame: window.bounds)
window.addSubview(v);
v.backgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
let v2 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 100, height: 50))
v2.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
v.addSubview(v2)
Swift 4
let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!
let v = UIView(frame: window.bounds)
window.addSubview(v);
v.backgroundColor = UIColor.black
let v2 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 100, height: 50))
v2.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
v.addSubview(v2)
Simple!
For SWIFT 3 use this:
let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!
window.addSubview(someView)
Swift 4,
Adding a UIViewController as a subview to UIWindow
This code is for adding view controller as a subview, covering the whole window with simple animation.
let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
var customReviewPopup = ReviewPopupViewController.init(nibName: "ReviewPopupViewController", bundle: Bundle.main)
self.appDelegate.window?.addSubview((customReviewPopup.view)!)
self.customReviewPopup.view.frame = (self.appDelegate.window?.bounds)!
self.customReviewPopup.view.alpha = 0
self.customReviewPopup.view.isHidden = true
UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.3, delay: 0, options: .transitionCrossDissolve, animations: {
self.customReviewPopup.view.isHidden = false
self.customReviewPopup.view.alpha = 1
}, completion: nil)