Add a UIView above all, even the navigation bar

Question

I want to display, above any other views, even the navigation bar, a kind of \"pop-up\" view that looks like this:

• full screen black background with a 0.5 alph

Answer 1

@Nam's answer works great if you just want to display your custom view but if your custom view needs user interaction you need to disable interaction for the navigationBar.

self.navigationController.navigationBar.layer.zPosition = -1
self.navigationController.navigationBar.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

Like said in Nam's answer don't forget to reverse these changes:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.layer.zPosition = 0
self.navigationController.navigationBar.isUserInteractionEnabled = true

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You can do this in a better way with an extension:

extension UINavigationBar {
    func toggle() {
        if self.layer.zPosition == -1 {
            self.layer.zPosition = 0
            self.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
        } else {
            self.layer.zPosition = -1
            self.isUserInteractionEnabled = false
        }
    }
}

And simply use it like this:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.toggle()