how to center a popoverview in swift

Question

I have the following code to show a popoverview (dialog) without an arrow, which works fine. The only problem is, that the dialog is shown in the top left (IPad). I would li

Answer 1

Basically consist of three steps (iOS 8):

1.- Present the view:

Let's say, you want to show a custom view to ask for a Review to the user.. here the function loadNibForRate() returns an instance of RateDialog loaded from its nib, but you can use here any way you desire to locate your UIViewController

private static func presentCustomDialog(parent: RateDialogParent) -> Bool {
    /// Loads the rateDialog from its xib, handled this way for further customization if desired
      if let rateDialog = loadNibForRate() {
        rateDialog.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
        rateDialog.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyle.CrossDissolve
        let x = parent.view.center

        let sourceRectX : CGFloat
        //Here we check for the orientation of the device, just to know if we are on an iPad
        let maximumDim = max(UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.height, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width)
        if maximumDim == 1024 { //iPad
            sourceRectX = x.x
        }else {
            sourceRectX = 0
        }

        rateDialog.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = parent.view
        rateDialog.popoverPresentationController?.permittedArrowDirections = UIPopoverArrowDirection.allZeros
        rateDialog.popoverPresentationController?.sourceRect = CGRectMake(sourceRectX, x.y, 0, 0)
        rateDialog.popoverPresentationController?.popoverLayoutMargins = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)
        rateDialog.popoverPresentationController?.delegate = parent

        rateDialogParent = parent

        callFunctionAsync() {
            parent.presentViewController(rateDialog, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
        return true
    }
    return false
}

2.- If we rotate our device, then the popover will not know where to reposition itself, unless we have this on the parent RateDialogParent

public class RateDialogParent: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {
/**
This function guarantees that the RateDialog is alwas centered at parent, it locates the RateDialog's view by searching for its tag (-555)
 */
 public func popoverPresentationController(popoverPresentationController: UIPopoverPresentationController, willRepositionPopoverToRect rect: UnsafeMutablePointer, inView view: AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer) {
    if popoverPresentationController.presentedViewController.view.tag == RateDialog.thisViewTag {
        let x = popoverPresentationController.presentingViewController.view.center
        let newRect = CGRectMake(x.x, x.y, 0, 0)
        rect.initialize(newRect)
    }
 }
}

3.- Your RateDialog should have a tag setted, this is just to avoid relocating unwanted popovers if there is more that one presented from your RateDialogParent

class RateDialog: UIViewController {
 @IBOutlet weak var reviewTitle: UILabel!
 @IBOutlet weak var reviewMessage : UILabel!
 @IBOutlet weak var cancelButtonTitle: UIButton!
 @IBOutlet weak var remindButtonTitle : UIButton!
 @IBOutlet weak var rateButtonTitle : UIButton!

    /// For being able to locate this view
 static let thisViewTag = -555

 override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    //sets the tag to identify this view
    self.view.tag = RateDialog.thisViewTag
 }
}