How to show modalviewcontroller above tabbar

Question

I have tab bar and in view "A" and in "A" I have navigation controller. SO inside my navigation controller in "A" i called

[self presentModalViewController:modalView animated:YES]

But modalView shows under tab bar. How to show it above tab bar?

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '12 at 09:12

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Try to present modal view from UITabBarController:

[self.tabBarController presentModalViewController:modalView animated:YES];

answered Jul 29 '12 at 09:12

Sergey Kuryanov

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '18 at 07:04

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My case, the modal has a transparent background, I set modalPresentationStyle is .overFullScreen and it show at above tabbar with clear background.

answered May 21 '18 at 07:04

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Tim · Answer 3 · 2018-04-13T10:50:45.803

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In my case the presented view controller had UIModalPresentationStyle.CurrentContext at .modalPresentationStyle, which made the tab bar overlap

Jus switch back to a default value to fix the issue

edited Apr 13 '18 at 10:50

answered May 06 '16 at 16:25

Tim

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Hey, Were you to able to solve this issue. I'm facing the same issue. :| – Yash Bedi Jan 18 '18 at 06:55
@YashBedi, yes, I set the modal presentation style to default one. In my case modal presentation style was changed from a default one by an accident – Tim Jan 18 '18 at 16:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '12 at 19:14

The cause of this is that the ancestor viewController is not correctly set. for instance imagine:

UIViewController * myController = ... // a view controller without a proper ancestor

now:

myController.tabBarController == nil

Therefore:

[myController presentModalViewController:otherController];

Will fail (by showing up under the tab bar). The fix is to add myController to its ancestor via

[parentController addChildViewController:myController];

Now, parentController must be added to another controller in the same way and so forth until the root one is your tabController. This is only available in iOS 5+. If build for iOS 4 or earlier, you will have to work around this by making sure all of your controllers are directly added to either a UINav or UITab controller. If this is not possible, you will have to access the UITabBarController via a global variable.

I used global variable. Thanks – Dmitriy Kalachniuk Sep 13 '12 at 08:37 — Dmitriy Kalachniuk, Sep 13 '12 at 08:37

How to show modalviewcontroller above tabbar

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