Accessing the Status Bar

Question

So, I'd like to receive touches from the status bar anywhere, any view, from the app. Well actually only specific views, like home screens and root view controllers say from a view of a tab view controller.

So my goal is to: hold down the status bar to dismiss the current view, like a back button.

The reason why I'm using this approach as a back button is because the app I am making is a utility, like fully functional apps within one app. Therefore I do not want to use up space on the navbar item to display a back button.

Other fissures would be nice, like swipe left/right or double tap, but mostly holding down. I've seen alternatives like using a UIScrollView and use the - scrollsToTop method. Hmm not what I am looking for.

try this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3753097/how-to-detect-touches-in-status-bar OR Try this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5448613/passing-touch-events-to-ios-status-bar — Arun, Jul 15 '15 at 06:12
Fantastic, I'll have to try it out. I love how the good answer is not the "correct" answer :) — ErickES7, Jul 15 '15 at 06:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 06:25

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Hope this can help you.

When you tap the top area, which has 44 height, the event would be triggered.

- (void)viewDidLoad{
    UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGesture = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(navigationBack:)];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapGesture];
}



- (void)navigationBack:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapGesture {
    CGPoint p = [tapGesture locationInView:self.view];
    if (CGRectContainsPoint(CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, 44), p)) {
        NSLog(@"this where you put you navigation back event");
    }
}

answered Jul 15 '15 at 06:25

ronan

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where would i paste this implementation? – ErickES7 Jul 15 '15 at 06:49
I pasted this in the view controller and it appears to only work in the view, which is below the status bar vs part of it. thank you tho :) – ErickES7 Jul 15 '15 at 06:52

Accessing the Status Bar

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