Imitate Facebook hide/show expanding/contracting N

Question

In the new iOS7 Facebook iPhone app, when the user scrolls up the navigationBar gradually hides itself to a point where it completely vanishes. Then when the user scrolls down the navigationBar gradually shows itself.

How would you implement this behavior yourself? I am aware of the following solution but it disappears right away and it isn't tied to the speed of the user's scroll gesture at all.

[navigationController setNavigationBarHidden: YES animated:YES];

I hope this isn't a duplicate as I'm not sure how best to describe the "expanding/contracting" behavior.

Answer 1

HidingNavigationBar a great project that hides the Navigation Bar and the Tab Bar if you want.

HidingNavigationBar supports hiding/showing of the following view elements:

UINavigationBar

UINavigationBar and an extension UIView

UINavigationBar and a UIToolbar

UINavigationBar and a UITabBar

https://github.com/tristanhimmelman/HidingNavigationBar

Answer 2

One way that I’ve accomplished this is the following.

Register your view controller to be the UIScrollViewDelegate of your UITableView for example.

- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView;
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView;
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView willDecelerate:(BOOL)decelerate;

From within de UIScrollViewDelegate methods you can get the new contentOffset and translate your UINavigationBar up or down accordingly.

Setting the alpha of the subviews can also be done based on some threshold values and factors you can set and compute.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

All of these approaches seem overly complicated... So naturally, I built my own:

class ViewController: UIViewController, UIScrollViewDelegate {
    var originalNavbarHeight:CGFloat = 0.0
    var minimumNavbarHeight:CGFloat = 0
    weak var scrollView:UIScrollView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
        // setup delegates 
        scrollView.delegate = self
        // save the original nav bar height
        originalNavbarHeight = navigationController!.navigationBar.height
    }


    func scrollViewDidScroll(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
        // will relayout subviews
        view.setNeedsLayout() // calls viewDidLayoutSubviews
    }

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
        var percentageScrolled = min(scrollView.contentOffset.y / originalNavbarHeight, 1)
        navigationController?.navigationBar.height = min(max((1 - percentageScrolled) * originalNavbarHeight, minimumNavbarHeight), originalNavbarHeight)
        // re-position and scale scrollview
        scrollView.y = navigationController!.navigationBar.height + UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarFrame.height
        scrollView.height = view.height - scrollView.y
    }

    override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
        navigationController?.navigationBar.height = originalNavbarHeight
    }

}

Answer 4

I found all answers given in Objective-C. This is my answer in Swift 3. This is very generic code and can be used directly. It works with both UIScrollView and UITableView.

var lastContentOffset: CGPoint? = nil
var maxMinus: CGFloat           = -24.0
var maxPlus: CGFloat            = 20.0
var initial: CGFloat            = 0.0

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.title = "Alarm Details"
    self.lastContentOffset = self.alarmDetailsTableView.contentOffset
    initial = maxPlus
}

func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView)
{
    var navigationBarFrame: CGRect   = self.navigationController!.navigationBar.frame
    let currentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset

    if (currentOffset.y > (self.lastContentOffset?.y)!) {
        if currentOffset.y > 0 {
            initial = initial - fabs(CGFloat(currentOffset.y - self.lastContentOffset!.y))
        }
        else if scrollView.contentSize.height < scrollView.frame.size.height {
            initial = initial + fabs(CGFloat(currentOffset.y - self.lastContentOffset!.y))
        }
    }
    else {
        if currentOffset.y < scrollView.contentSize.height - scrollView.frame.size.height {
            initial = initial + fabs(CGFloat(currentOffset.y - self.lastContentOffset!.y))
        }
        else if scrollView.contentSize.height < scrollView.frame.size.height && initial < maxPlus {
            initial = initial - fabs(CGFloat(currentOffset.y - self.lastContentOffset!.y))
        }
    }

    initial = (initial <= maxMinus) ? maxMinus : initial
    initial = (initial >= maxPlus) ? maxPlus : initial

    navigationBarFrame.origin.y = initial

    self.navigationController!.navigationBar.frame = navigationBarFrame
    scrollView.frame = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: initial + navigationBarFrame.size.height , width: navigationBarFrame.size.width, height: self.view.frame.size.height - (initial + navigationBarFrame.size.height))

    let framePercentageHidden: CGFloat              = ((20 - navigationBarFrame.origin.y) / (navigationBarFrame.size.height));
    self.lastContentOffset                          = currentOffset;
    self.updateBarButtonItems(alpha: 1 - framePercentageHidden)
}

func updateBarButtonItems(alpha: CGFloat)
{
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.darkGray.withAlphaComponent(alpha)]
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isUserInteractionEnabled = (alpha < 1) ? false: true

    guard (self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems?.count) != nil else { return }

    for (_, value) in self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems!.enumerated() {
        value.customView?.alpha = alpha
    }

    guard (self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems?.count) != nil else { return }

    for (_, value) in (self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems?.enumerated())! {
        value.customView?.alpha = alpha
    }
}

The logic of setting alpha to navigation items is copied from @WayneBurkett answer and rewritten in Swift 3.

Answer 5

I have some kind of a quick and dirty solution for that. Haven't made any in-depth testing but here's the idea:

That property will keep all the items in the navbar for my UITableViewController class

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSArray *navBarItems;

In the same UITableViewController class I have:

-(void)scrollViewDidScrollToTop:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    if([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] < 7.0f){
        return;
    }

    CGRect frame = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame;
    frame.origin.y = 20;

    if(self.navBarItems.count > 0){
        [self.navigationController.navigationBar setItems:self.navBarItems];
    }

    [self.navigationController.navigationBar setFrame:frame];
}

-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    if([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] < 7.0f){
        return;
    }

    CGRect frame = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame;
    CGFloat size = frame.size.height - 21;

    if([scrollView.panGestureRecognizer translationInView:self.view].y < 0)
    {
        frame.origin.y = -size;

        if(self.navigationController.navigationBar.items.count > 0){
            self.navBarItems = [self.navigationController.navigationBar.items copy];
            [self.navigationController.navigationBar setItems:nil];
        }
    }
    else if([scrollView.panGestureRecognizer translationInView:self.view].y > 0)
    {
        frame.origin.y = 20;

        if(self.navBarItems.count > 0){
            [self.navigationController.navigationBar setItems:self.navBarItems];
        }
    }

    [UIView beginAnimations:@"toggleNavBar" context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.2];
    [self.navigationController.navigationBar setFrame:frame];
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

That's only for ios >= 7, it's ugly I know but a quick way to achieve this. Any comments/suggestions are welcome :)

Answer 6

In addition to Iwburk's answer I added the following to fix the alpha issue on non custom navigation bars and to reset the navigation bar in the viewWillDisappear method:

- (void)updateBarButtonItems:(CGFloat)alpha
{
    for (UIView *view in self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews) {
        NSString *className = NSStringFromClass([view class]);

        if ( ![className isEqualToString:@"_UINavigationBarBackground"] ) {
            view.alpha = alpha;
        }
    }
}

- (void)resetNavigationBar {
    CGRect frame = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame;
    frame.origin.y = 20;
    [self.navigationController.navigationBar setFrame:frame];
    [self updateBarButtonItems:1.0f];
}