UINavigationController subview's won't come back after hide/show of navigation bar

Question

I'm struggling with a subview of my navigation controller whose position and dimensions are constricted to the navigation bar. When I hide the navigation bar, the subview disappears (expected behavior). But when I'm bringing the navigation bar back the subview does not follow.

This subview is just a progress view (a custom UIView that I fill with a color depending on the progress of some tasks) on top of my navigation bar.

The positionning of the progress view is set with constraints in the viewDidLoad of my UINavigationController subclass :

 - (void) viewDidLoad{

// The dimensions here are totally arbitrary since they are going to be defined automatically by the constraints
_progressView = [[CRProgressView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];

[self.view addSubview:_progressView];

UINavigationBar *navBar = [self navigationBar];

[self.view addConstraint: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:_progressView
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom
                                          relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                             toItem:navBar
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom
                                         multiplier:1
                                           constant:0]];

[self.view addConstraint: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:_progressView
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeft
                                          relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                             toItem:navBar
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeft
                                         multiplier:1
                                           constant:0]];

[self.view addConstraint: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:_progressView
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight
                                          relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                             toItem:navBar
                                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeRight
                                         multiplier:1
                                           constant:0]];

[self.view addConstraint: [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:_progressView
                                                      attribute:NSLayoutAttributeHeight
                                                      relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                         toItem:navBar
                                                      attribute:NSLayoutAttributeHeight
                                                     multiplier:0
                                                       constant:2]];

 [_progressView setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
 }

From here everything looks fine but at some point, in the collectionView displayed in the navigation controller I call [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES] to clear the screen and have extra space when the user scrolls down in the collection view.

If the user scrolls up I show the navigation bar back but here the navigation bar appears without the progress view.

Here is the code used for showing and hiding the navigation bar in the collectionView, but I don't think the issue comes from here. It correctly hides and shows the navigationBar :

- (void) scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{

if (scrollView.contentOffset.y >= 0 && scrollView.contentOffset.y <= scrollView.contentSize.height - self.view.frame.size.height) {
    if (self.lastContentOffsetY > scrollView.contentOffset.y) {
        //Show navigation bar
        if (self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden) {
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
        }
    }
    else if (self.lastContentOffsetY < scrollView.contentOffset.y) {

        if (!self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden) {
            [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];   
        }
    }

    self.lastContentOffsetY = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
}
}

I don't understand why the progress view does not come back with the navigation bar when I'm calling [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES].

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Did you try with adding a self.view.setNeedsUpdateConstraints() at the end of your scrolling method? — Romain
I did try to update the constraints on all the different components without success. I also checked if the navigation controller did not release and create a new nav bar each time I hide/show, but it remain the same object. — Aurelien
Stop using UINavigationController with navigation bar. Create your custom view for navigation bar . If yours designs need heavy customization or animation . better create your own . I can show you how to do it. — Pulkit Kumar Singh

Axy Axy · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-23T07:13:00

I'm not sure if it works 100% in your case, but you could try inserting this override method:

- (void)setNavigationBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden animated:(BOOL)animated{
   [super setNavigationBarHidden:hidden animated: animated];
   [self layoutIfNeeded];
}

UINavigationController subview's won't come back after hide/show of navigation bar

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