UISearchController: show results even when search bar is empty

Question

As I understand, the default behaviour of UISearchController is:

1. On tapping search bar, background is dimmed and \'cancel\' button is shown.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use ReactiveCocoa with this extension https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/ReactiveTwitterSearch/blob/master/ReactiveTwitterSearch/Util/UIKitExtensions.swift

        presentViewController(sc, animated: true, completion: {
            sc.searchResultsController?.view.rac_hidden.modify({ value -> Bool in
                return false
            })
        } )

where sc is your UISearchController