Prevent a UISearchDisplayController from hiding the navigation bar

Question

Whenever a user begins editing a UISearchDisplayController\'s search bar, the search controller becomes active and hides the view\'s navigation bar while presen

Answer 1

I think the best solution is to implement the UISearchDisplayController yourself.

It's not that difficult. You only need to implement UISearchBarDelegate for your UIViewController and include a UITableView to display your search results.

Answer 2

Tried this a different way, without subclassing UISearchDisplayController. In your UIViewController class where you set the delegate for UISearchDisplayController, implement searchDisplayControllerDidBeginSearch: and add use

[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];

Did the trick for me, hope that helps.

Answer 3

The simplest solution and no hacks.

@interface MySearchDisplayController : UISearchDisplayController

@end

@implementation MySearchDisplayController

- (void)setActive:(BOOL)visible animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setActive: visible animated: animated];

    [self.searchContentsController.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden: NO animated: NO];
}

@end