Dark shadow on navigation bar during segue transition after upgrading to Xcode 5.1 and iOS 7.1

Question

When I am navigating back & forth between parent and child controllers in a master - detail navigation controller, i see a dark shadow on the right side of navigation ba

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug that was introduced in iOS 7.1. In my case it is caused by a UIToolbar placed directly below the navigation bar. The dark shadow also appears in the translucent tab bar.

The shadow seems to be caused by the background view of the UIToolbar. I now use this workaround in the view controller with the toolbar that hides the toolbar's background view during the transition:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];

    UIView *toolbarBackgroundView = [self.toolbar findViewRecursively:^BOOL(UIView *subview, BOOL *stop) {
        BOOL isToolbarBackgroundView = ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]
                                        && [NSStringFromClass(subview.class) isEqualToString:@"_UIToolbarBackground"]);
        if (isToolbarBackgroundView) {
            *stop = YES;
        }
        return (! isToolbarBackgroundView);
    }];
    if (toolbarBackgroundView) {
        // fade toolbar background view back in
        [UIView animateWithDuration:0.1f animations:^{
            toolbarBackgroundView.alpha = 1.0f;
        }];
    }
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    UIView *toolbarBackgroundView = [self.toolbar findViewRecursively:^BOOL(UIView *subview, BOOL *stop) {
        BOOL isToolbarBackgroundView = ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]
                                        && [NSStringFromClass(subview.class) isEqualToString:@"_UIToolbarBackground"]);
        if (isToolbarBackgroundView) {
            *stop = YES;
        }
        return (! isToolbarBackgroundView);
    }];
    if (toolbarBackgroundView) {
        // hide toolbar background view
        toolbarBackgroundView.alpha = 0.0f;
    }
}

This is the code for [UIView findViewRecursively:]

@interface UIView (FindSubview)

- (UIView*)findViewRecursively:(BOOL(^)(UIView* subview, BOOL* stop))recurse;

@end

@implementation UIView (FindSubview)

- (UIView*)findViewRecursively:(BOOL(^)(UIView* subview, BOOL* stop))recurse {
    for (UIView* subview in self.subviews) {
        BOOL stop = NO;
        if (recurse(subview, &stop)) {
            UIView* view = [subview findViewRecursively:recurse];
            if (view) return view;
        } else if (stop) {
            return subview;
        }
    }
    return nil;
}

@end

I filed this Radar: http://openradar.appspot.com/16418845