UIWindow not showing over content in iOS 13

Question

I am upgrading my app to use the new UIScene patterns as defined in iOS 13, however a critical part of the app has stopped working. I have been using a UI

Answer 1

Here are the steps to present a view controller in a new window on iOS 13:

1. Detect focused UIWindowScene.

extension UIWindowScene {
    static var focused: UIWindowScene? {
        return UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes
            .first { $0.activationState == .foregroundActive && $0 is UIWindowScene } as? UIWindowScene
    }
}

2. Create UIWindow for the focused scene.

if let window = UIWindowScene.focused.map(UIWindow.init(windowScene:)) {
  // ...
}

3. Present UIViewController in that window.

let myViewController = UIViewController()

if let window = UIWindowScene.focused.map(UIWindow.init(windowScene:)) {
    window.rootViewController = myViewController
    window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}

Answer 2

Need have pointer a created window for ios13.

example my code:

 extension UIAlertController {

    private static var _aletrWindow: UIWindow?
    private static var aletrWindow: UIWindow {
        if let window = _aletrWindow {
            return window
        } else {
            let window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
            window.rootViewController = UIViewController()
            window.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert + 1
            window.backgroundColor = .clear
            _aletrWindow = window
            return window
        }
    }

    func presentGlobally(animated: Bool, completion: (() -> Void)? = nil) {
        UIAlertController.aletrWindow.makeKeyAndVisible()
        UIAlertController.aletrWindow.rootViewController?.present(self, animated: animated, completion: completion)
    }

    open override func viewDidDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidDisappear(animated)
        UIAlertController.aletrWindow.isHidden = true
    }

}

use:

let alert = UIAlertController(...
...

alert.presentGlobally(animated: true)

Answer 3

In addition to the answers about creating a reference to UIWindow and then presenting modally, I've included a section of my code on how I'm dismissing it.

class PresentingViewController: UIViewController {
    private var coveringWindow: UIWindow?

  func presentMovie() {
    let playerVC = MoviePlayerViewController()
    playerVC.delegate = self
    playerVC.modalPresentationStyle = .overFullScreen
    playerVC.modalTransitionStyle = .coverVertical

    self.coverPortraitWindow(playerVC)
  }

  func coverPortraitWindow(_ movieController: MoviePlayerViewController) {

    let windowScene = UIApplication.shared
        .connectedScenes
        .filter { $0.activationState == .foregroundActive }
        .first
    if let windowScene = windowScene as? UIWindowScene {
        self.coveringWindow = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)

        let rootController = UIViewController()
        rootController.view.backgroundColor = .clear

        self.coveringWindow!.windowLevel = .alert + 1
        self.coveringWindow!.isHidden = false
        self.coveringWindow!.rootViewController = rootController
        self.coveringWindow!.makeKeyAndVisible()

        rootController.present(movieController, animated: true)
    }
  }

  func uncoverPortraitWindow() {
    guard let windowScene = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first as? UIWindowScene,
        let sceneDelegate = windowScene.delegate as? SceneDelegate
        else {
            return
    }
    sceneDelegate.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
    self.coveringWindow = nil
  }

}

Answer 4

Here's a bit hacky way of holding a strong reference to created UIWindow and releasing it after presented view controller is dismissed and deallocated. Just make sure you don't make reference cycles.

private final class WindowHoldingViewController: UIViewController {

    private var window: UIWindow?

    convenience init(window: UIWindow) {
        self.init()

        self.window = window
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        view.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
    }

    override func present(_ viewControllerToPresent: UIViewController, animated flag: Bool, completion: (() -> Void)? = nil) {
        let view = DeallocatingView()
        view.onDeinit = { [weak self] in
            self?.window = nil
        }
        viewControllerToPresent.view.addSubview(view)

        super.present(viewControllerToPresent, animated: flag, completion: completion)
    }

    private final class DeallocatingView: UIView {

        var onDeinit: (() -> Void)?

        deinit {
            onDeinit?()
        }
    }
}

Usage:

let vcToPresent: UIViewController = ...
let window = UIWindow() // or create via window scene
...
window.rootViewController = WindowHoldingViewController(window: window)
...
window.rootViewController?.present(vcToPresent, animated: animated, completion: completion)

Answer 5

You can try like this:

extension UIWindow {
    static var key: UIWindow? {
        if #available(iOS 13, *) {
            return UIApplication.shared.windows.first { $0.isKeyWindow }
        } else {
            return UIApplication.shared.keyWindow
        }
    }
}

Usage:

if let rootVC = UIWindow.key?.rootViewController {
    rootVC.present(nextViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Keep Coding........ :)

Answer 6

I was experiencing the same problems while upgrading my code for iOS 13 scenes pattern. With parts of your second code snippet I managed to fix everything so my windows are appearing again. I was doing the same as you except for the last line. Try removing viewController.present(...). Here's my code:

let windowScene = UIApplication.shared
                .connectedScenes
                .filter { $0.activationState == .foregroundActive }
                .first
if let windowScene = windowScene as? UIWindowScene {
    popupWindow = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
}

Then I present it like you do:

popupWindow?.frame = UIScreen.main.bounds
popupWindow?.backgroundColor = .clear
popupWindow?.windowLevel = UIWindow.Level.statusBar + 1
popupWindow?.rootViewController = self as? UIViewController
popupWindow?.makeKeyAndVisible()

Anyway, I personally think that the problem is in viewController.present(...), because you show a window with that controller and immediately present some 'self', so it depends on what 'self' really is.

Also worth mentioning that I store a reference to the window you're moving from inside my controller. If this is still useless for you I can only show my small repo that uses this code. Have a look inside AnyPopupController.swift and Popup.swift files.

Hope that helps, @SirOz