UITableViewController hides navigationbar[Search Bar]

Question

I Have added search bar to navigation bar title view and when I start searching the UITableViewController hides navigation bar how do I get UITableViewController below the navigation bar.

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        let resultController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SearchTableViewController") as! UITableViewController

        self.searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: resultController)
//        self.searchController.searchResultsUpdater = self
//        self.searchController.delegate = self
//        self.searchController.searchBar.delegate = self
        self.searchController.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        self.searchController.searchBar.placeholder = "Search Outlets"
        self.searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
        self.searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false

donnywals donnywals · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-15T13:54:30

As far as I can tell your view controller does not have the definesPresentationContext property set. If you don't set this, strange things are bound to happen. Try updating your code like this:

let resultController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SearchTableViewController") as! UITableViewController

self.searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: resultController)
//self.searchController.searchResultsUpdater = self
//self.searchController.delegate = self
//self.searchController.searchBar.delegate = self
self.searchController.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
self.searchController.searchBar.placeholder = "Search Outlets"
self.searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
self.searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false

self.definesPresentationContext = true

The last line is the line I've added. When I tested this in one my own apps, not specifying this line caused the behaviour you're seeing.

UITableViewController hides navigationbar[Search Bar]

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