Bringing a subview to be in front of all other views

Question

I am working on integrating an ad provider into my app currently. I wish to place a fading message in front of the ad when the ad displays but have been completely unsuccess

Answer 1

What if the ad provider's view is not added to self.view but to something like [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow?

Try something like:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview:yourSubview]

or

[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow bringSubviewToFront:yourSubview]

Answer 2

In Swift 4.2

UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.bringSubviewToFront(yourView)

Source: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiview/1622541-bringsubviewtofront#declarations

Answer 3

Swift 2 version of Jere's answer:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow!.bringSubviewToFront(YourViewHere)

Swift 3:

UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.bringSubview(toFront: YourViewHere)

Swift 4:

UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.bringSubviewToFront(YourViewHere)

Hope it saves someone 10 seconds! ;)

Answer 4

try this:

self.view.layer.zPosition = 1;

Answer 5

Let me make a conclusion. In Swift 5

You can choose to addSubview to keyWindow, if you add the view in the last. Otherwise, you can bringSubViewToFront.

let view = UIView()
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.addSubview(view)
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.bringSubviewToFront(view)

You can also set the zPosition. But the drawback is that you can not change the gesture responding order.

view.layer.zPosition = 1

Answer 6

As far as i experienced zposition is a best way.

self.view.layer.zPosition = 1;