Question

I’d like to consult designing approach of my new ViewController.

Here is a project. Please forgive foreign language. Fortunately the text is not important. Ignore the yellow thingy aswell

Don’t bother the bars, those are just navigation bar and tab bar. What is important is a right approach for designing a table and the search panel above (“Szukaj” is a search button).

Search panel should be opened by clicking the magnifying glass button on the navigation bar. It should slide down from beneath of the navigation bar and move down the table until it’s fully open. Search panel hides on mangifying glass click or on table scroll. It will slide up/down only in those situations, there will be no “finger sliding “it

What would be the best approach of building it?

Should I include search panel on my ViewController xib file, or create and adding it in a runtime using another xib? Slide down/up animation is very important, I want it to look cool.

What if it was in the nib file from the begining set as hidden? Would the table take it’s place? Can I eaisly animate it on show?

Any advices are welcome

Answer 1

I have to say that many of us would probably find several ways to go about that but here is what I think I would do:

I would create a separate UIView for the search panel and put it in the nib in it’s hidden position, which would be on top of the visible area. After pressing a button, I would slide it down (with a simple UIView’s animate task) and, at the same time, resize the UITableView so it’s top aligns with the bottom of the search panel and it’s bottom remains in the same place.

Creating and destroying the search panel every time someone opens and closes it seems inefficient to me, especially that it can happen a lot of times within short time.