TTWindowManager

A simple window presentation manager for iOS written in objective-c which takes advantage of UIWindow.

UIWindow can present any UIViewController subclass as a rootViewController. Normally an entire app is confined within a single UIWindow. This manager allows you to create many TTWindow objects with different z positions for some truly creative UI!

Present a view above the UIStatusBar easily!
Create Apple-like Alerts that present above every UI element
Create a HUD that displays above navigation bars and tabbars!
Add a shake gesture recognizer with just one line of code

I wrote TTWindowManager before swift existed. I haven't converted it but have now fully embraced swift so I'm exclusively showing swift implementation.

Installation

Cocoapods

Add the following to your Podfile:

pod 'TTWindowManager'

Manually

Drag TTWindowManager/TTWindowManager folder into your project.
If using swift, add #import TTWindowManager.h to your bridging header and code away!

Implementation (swift)

Override the main UIWindow in your AppDelegate with a TTWindow to take full advantage of the stack.

class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

//    var window: UIWindow?
    //Replace default with TTWindow override
    var window : UIWindow? = {
        let window = TTWindow()
        return window
        } ()
    
    func application(application: UIApplication, willFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject : AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
        
        //Important to ensure the window is properly sized
        self.window?.frame = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
        return true
    }
}

Add a shake gesture callback to display a debug console or something else app-specific

Add it to didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in your AppDelegate if you're overriding the default UIWindow

(self.window as! TTWindow).shakeGestureCallback = { () -> Void in
    //Display something on shake
    println("Shake!")
}

Quickly present a new TTWindow with an animation and at a specific window level

TTWindowManager.sharedInstance().presentViewController(viewController, atWindowPosition: .Modal, withAnimation: .Modal) { (success) -> Void in
            
}

TTWindowPosition determines what z-index the TTWindow will present. These values are based around UIWindowLevel and will present the window above or behind native Apple components like the UIStatusBar or UIAlerts

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