Show UiView above all views

Question

I am trying to show UIView above all navigationBar , status bar.

I tried options like setting navigation z position , adding UIView to UIWindow and adding UIView to NavigationController.

Add a UIView above all, even the navigation bar

Nothing worked for me.

My Application is on xcode 9.2 ,swift 4.0 , ios 11.

@the4kman It's not an overlay, it's a system window. Technically, you can create a window that will be even above the status bar. There are also ways to access it dynamically but I would not advise to do that :) — Sulthan, Mar 09 '18 at 16:22
@the4kman Not really, I saw apps that were showing notifications messages above the status bar. See https://github.com/cezarywojcik/CWStatusBarNotification. Note that Apple does not force you to show status bar, that's why you can hide it completely for view controllers. — Sulthan, Mar 09 '18 at 16:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '18 at 13:19

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Add overlayView on main window:

if let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow {
    let overlayView = UIView()
    overlayView.frame = window.frame
    overlayView.backgroundColor = .red
    window.addSubview(overlayView)
}

answered Mar 09 '18 at 13:19

Jay Patel

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I found Problem having constraints on UIView will not work with UIApplication.shared.keyWindow so, I removed constraints and It worked. Please update – bhupinder Mar 09 '18 at 13:41
this is perfect, but I tried to press button in the added view but method not getting called! do you know why? – EnasAZ Sep 03 '18 at 02:17
EnasAZ, please addTarget for UIButton. – Jay Patel Aug 14 '19 at 10:47

Show UiView above all views

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