How do I get a UINavigationController to NOT change its view size when setting the translucent property?

Question

I have an app where up until now I've been using a UINavigationController with a UINavigationBar that has its property translucent = YES. This means the UINavigationController's content view (i.e. the views from the view controllers you push) to be full-screen (minus status bar).

However, if you set the navigationBar.translucent = NO, this container view becomes 44pt shorter, as I suppose Apple has assumed you don't need any content under an opaque navigationBar.

... except if you're doing what we're doing and are employing a navigationBar that scrolls away (see This Post on how to do that) So I'd like to know if this is possible.

I want to have translucent = NO, but have everything behave as if it were still set to YES. I like the functionality of the translucent = YES, but I don't actually want the bar to be made translucent by UIKit.

Answer 1

What worked for me was to add extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = true in viewDidLoad

something like this

override func viewDidLoad() {
   super.viewDidLoad()
   extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = true
}

Hope it will work for you as well

Answer 2

It's not necessarily a good answer but you could just offset your view that high if you're not translucent.

//This won't take into account orientation and probably other details
if(!self.navigationController.navigationBar.isTranslucent)
{
    self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,-44,self.view.bounds.size.height);
}

You could put that in your viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear and if you have a bunch of view controllers you can just subclass them all and put your logic in the subclass.