We have found what seems to be a bug in UIKit but wanted to post here to see if anyone else has this problem or found a solution.
We're trying to use the new iOS11 large titles and hoisted search bar/refreshcontrol. We seemed to have found a problem where the root viewController of the navigation stack shows a minor display issue (problem A) but once another viewcontroller is pushed onto the navigation stack, the display goes nuts (problem B):
Things to note:
- The problem is worse on the 2nd VC in the stack rather than the 1st
- The refreshControl is not the green color the code sets it to the 1st time you see it on each sceen
- The refreshControl slides down as you pull to refresh, it shouldn't do this
This odd behavior seems to only be a problem when we programmatically do a "pull to refresh" in viewDidLoad so that the user can see that the data is loading when they enter the screen. If we remove the lines that invoke refreshControl?.beginRefreshing()
the display is clean. I've recreated this problem in a sample vanilla app. This is the entirety of the viewcontroller that shows the problem:
import UIKit
class ViewController: UITableViewController {
var tableHeaderSearchController: UISearchController!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .always
tableHeaderSearchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: UITableViewController())
navigationItem.searchController = tableHeaderSearchController
refreshControl?.tintColor = UIColor.green
refreshControl?.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
refreshControl?.attributedTitle = NSAttributedString(string: "Loading Stuff...", attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 17)])
refreshControl?.addTarget(self, action: #selector(refreshPulled), for: .valueChanged)
// Commenting out these 2 lines makes it work fine but you can't see the initial refresh spinner
refreshControl?.beginRefreshing()
refreshPulled()
}
@objc func refreshPulled() {
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 3) { [refreshControl] in
refreshControl?.endRefreshing()
}
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
}
Here's the storyboard. It's just a vanilla tableviewcontroller wrapped in a navigationController. 3 static cells, the 2nd one traverses to another instance of the same controller type.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. We'd really like to adopt the new look but this stuff is making it very hard to do so.