How to exit from the search on clicking on Cancel button?

Question

I have a search bar with cancel button. But when I click on Cancel button it doesn\'t close the search bar. How can I make that on click on Cancel it will return search bar to t

Answer 1

You need to implement the UISearchBarDelegate.

The UISearchBarDelegate protocol defines the optional methods you implement to make a UISearchBar control functional. A UISearchBar object provides the user interface for a search field on a bar, but it’s the application’s responsibility to implement the actions when buttons are tapped. At a minimum, the delegate needs to perform the actual search when text is entered in the textField. Read this

In Objective C

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {

     [self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES];

}

In Swift :

func searchBarCancelButtonClicked(searchBar: UISearchBar) {

    self.searchDisplayController.setActive(false, animated: true)
}