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How Can I Float A View Over A Displayed Popover, in IOS?

I can produce a small project to illustrate this, but I think it's faster, and easier, if I simply describe it.

I have this widget I wrote. It displays a "floating" UITableView over everything else. It does this by adding itself to the main window root view controller.

However, if I am trying to display it in a popover, the table comes up under the popover. I should add that it will overlap the popover boundaries. It should not be contained in the popover.

What's the most correct way to get it to appear over the popover?

Solution

  • OK. I solved this, by simply attaching the table to the main view.window instance.

    This seems to work in all my tests (including things like split view, and popover view).

    I have not read anything that indicates that I should not do this. Apple has already passed a couple of TestFlight releases that have it, so it didn't ring any alarms for them.