Get search bar in navigation bar in Swift

Question

So I've tried everything trying to get a search bar into the navigation bar in Swift. But sadly I haven't gotten it working, just yet...

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I'm trying to do something like this

Note the search bar in the navigation bar. So here's what I'm currently using

self.searchDisplayController?.displaysSearchBarInNavigationBar = true 

I popped that in my viewDidLoad, and then when I load up the app I'm presented with, just an empty navigation bar.... :( Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this

let leftNavBarButton = UIBarButtonItem(customView:Yoursearchbar)   self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftNavBarButton 

Update

You keep a lazy UISearchBar property

lazy   var searchBar:UISearchBar = UISearchBar(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 20)) 

In viewDidLoad

searchBar.placeholder = "Your placeholder" var leftNavBarButton = UIBarButtonItem(customView:searchBar) self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftNavBarButton 

If you want to use storyboard just drag your searchbar as a outlet,then replace the lazy property with your outlet searchbar

Answer 2

    // create the search bar programatically since you won't be     // able to drag one onto the navigation bar     searchBar = UISearchBar()     searchBar.sizeToFit()      // the UIViewController comes with a navigationItem property     // this will automatically be initialized for you if when the     // view controller is added to a navigation controller's stack     // you just need to set the titleView to be the search bar     navigationItem.titleView = searchBar