Add a UIView above all, even the navigation bar

Question

I want to display, above any other views, even the navigation bar, a kind of \"pop-up\" view that looks like this:

• full screen black background with a 0.5 alph

Answer 1

Swift version of @Nicolas Bonnet 's answer:

    var popupWindow: UIWindow?

func showViewController(controller: UIViewController) {
    self.popupWindow = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
    controller.view.frame = self.popupWindow!.bounds
    self.popupWindow!.rootViewController = controller
    self.popupWindow!.makeKeyAndVisible()
}

func viewControllerDidRemove() {
    self.popupWindow?.removeFromSuperview()
    self.popupWindow = nil
}

Don't forget that the window must be a strong property, because the original answer leads to an immediate deallocation of the window

Answer 2

I recommend you to create a new UIWindow:

UIWindow *window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
window.rootViewController = viewController;
window.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
window.opaque = NO;
window.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelCFShareCircle;
window.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

[window makeKeyAndVisible];

Then you can manage your view in an other UIViewController. To remove the windows:

[window removeFromSuperview];
window = nil;

hope that will help!

Answer 3

UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.insertSubview(yourView, at: 1)

This method works with xcode 9.4 , iOS 11.4

Answer 4

There is more than one way to do it:

1- Add your UIView on UIWindow instead of adding it on UIViewController. This way it will be on top of everything.

   [[(AppDelegate *)[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate window] addSubview:view];

2- Use custom transition that will keep your UIViewController showing in the back with a 0.5 alpha

For that I recommend you look at this: https://github.com/Citrrus/BlurryModalSegue

Answer 5

[[UIApplication sharedApplication].windows.lastObject addSubview:myView];