Determine if UIView is visible to the user?

Question

is it possible to determine whether my UIView is visible to the user or not?

My View is added as subview several times into a Tab Bar

Answer 1

The solution that worked for me was to first check if the view has a window, then to iterate over superviews and check if:

1. the view is not hidden.
2. the view is within its superviews bounds.

Seems to work well so far.

Swift 3.0

public func isVisible(view: UIView) -> Bool {

  if view.window == nil {
    return false
  }

  var currentView: UIView = view
  while let superview = currentView.superview {

    if (superview.bounds).intersects(currentView.frame) == false {
      return false;
    }

    if currentView.isHidden {
      return false
    }

    currentView = superview
  }

  return true
}