iPhone popup menu like iPad popover?

Question

How can i implement this popup menu in iphone app like a popover in ipad?

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Answer 1

iOS 8 and later

Beginning with iOS 8, you can use UIPopoverPresentationController for iPhones in addition to iPads.

Setup

• Add a UIBarButtonItem to your main View Controller.
• Add another View Controller to the storyboard. Change it to the size that you want the popover to be and add any content that you want it to have. For my example I just added a UILabel. If you want a whole menu, then just add a table view or list of buttons.
• Add a segue from the bar button item to the view controller that you will use as the popover. Rather than show, choose Present as Popover.

• Select the segue in the storyboard and set the identifier to popoverSegue (or whatever string you called it in the code).

• In the Attributes inspector for the popover view controller, check Use Preferred Explicit Size and confirm that it is the size you want it to be.

Code

This is the code for the main view controller that has the bar button item in it.

class ViewController: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {

    override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
        if segue.identifier == "popoverSegue" {

            let popoverViewController = segue.destinationViewController
            popoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
            popoverViewController.popoverPresentationController!.delegate = self

        }
    }

    // MARK: - UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate method

    func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {

        // Force popover style
        return UIModalPresentationStyle.None
    }
}

Popover at an arbitrary anchor point

If you want to set the popover to appear somewhere besides a bar button item (on a UIButton for example) then you need to set the sourceView and sourceRect. See this answer for details.

Further reading

The above example comes mostly from the first link.

• iPad Style Popovers on the iPhone with Swift
• iOS 8 Popover Presentations
• UIPopoverPresentationController on iOS 8 iPhone
• General overview of popup options in iOS