Swift background color while pushing view controller

Question

I have two white view controllers. When i try to push a second view controller, i notice a grey background (basically it changes alpha value during transition). Is there any hack to disable this fade? I just want my background being white

Answer 1

Using a UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning would definitely be the "correct" way, but it seems you really want to not use it.

If you want to "hack" it, then swizzling is the way to go.

Here is an extension on UIView that prevents the underlying class _UIParallaxDimmingView from being displayed.

extension UIView {
    static func preventDimmingView() {
        guard let originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(UIView.self, #selector(addSubview(_:))), let swizzledMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(UIView.self, #selector(swizzled_addSubview(_:))) else { return }
        method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, swizzledMethod)
    }

    static func allowDimmingView() {
        guard let originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(UIView.self, #selector(addSubview(_:))), let swizzledMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(UIView.self, #selector(swizzled_addSubview(_:))) else { return }
        method_exchangeImplementations(swizzledMethod, originalMethod)
    }

    @objc func swizzled_addSubview(_ view: UIView) {
        let className = "_UIParallaxDimmingView"
        guard let offendingClass = NSClassFromString(className) else { return swizzled_addSubview(view) }
        if (view.isMember(of: offendingClass)) {
            return
        }
        swizzled_addSubview(view)
    }
}

I would recommend using it along the lines of this:

class SomeViewController: UIViewController {

    func transition(to viewController: UIViewController) {
        navigationController?.delegate = self
        navigationController?.pushViewController(viewController, animated: true)
    }
}


extension SomeViewController: UINavigationControllerDelegate {
    func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
        UIView.preventDimmingView()
    }

    func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, didShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
        UIView.allowDimmingView()
    }
}

Of course if you want this to make it through App Store review, you will likely get flagged for the "_UIParallaxDimmingView" string. I would recommend initializing it from a byte array instead:

let className = String(bytes: [95, 85, 73, 80, 97, 114, 97, 108, 108, 97, 120, 68, 105, 109, 109, 105, 110, 103, 86, 105, 101, 119], encoding: .utf8)!