SheetInteraction allows developers to observe changes to a UISheetPresentationController sheet's position, and perform percent-driven animations driven by a sheet stack's position.
Note: This solution is limited to UIKit projects running on iOS devices in compact horizontal size class (i.e. iPhone, or iPad mini running in portrait mode).
Developers may wish to perform percent-driven animations when users interact with UISheetPresentationController's modal sheet stack. Unfortunately, UISheetPresentationController only notifies its delegate when a sheet's detent finishes changing (i.e. when a sheet finishes animating to its target detent). What developers may wish to know is how much a sheet has animated between its smallest and largest detents, as well as between each individual detent, and be notified of that information interactively as those changes occur.
SheetInteraction provides developers with the following features:
- Track amount a sheet has animated from its smallest to largest detents (as a
percentageTotalfrom 0-1). - Track amount a sheet has animated between each detent using a value between 0-1 (e.g. 0.33 animated betweeen
mediumandlarge). - Observe the target detent at which a sheet will rest when user ends interaction (i.e. on touch up) and before sheet begins animating to its final resting detent.
The above features allow developers to tie user interface animations and state to a sheet's user interaction using animation APIs specified in the Animations section below.
A working example is provided in this project's Sources/Example directory. Build and run the SheetInteraction-Example scheme to see it in action.
- Initialize a
SheetInteractionobject. - Assign a delegate to that object in order to observe user interaction.
- Set a delegate on
SheetInteraction.sheetInteractionGesture, and ensure it simultaneously recognizes with all other gesture recognizers. - See Animations on how to drive percent-driven animations based on a sheet's user interaction.
To begin, initialize a SheetInteraction object on the root view controller of a modal view controller stack. The root view controller can either be a UINavigationController or UIViewController. This object must be initialized with the root view of the root view controller. In a navigation controller setup, ensure this is a view that includes the navigation bar (Warning: Do not use a modal view stack's drop shadow view provided by UIKit, as its frame and safeAreaInsets may not necessarily align with that of the sheetView's).
SheetInteraction only needs to be initialized once for any modal view stack.
Once initialized, set SheetInteraction.sheetInteractionGesture.delegate, and implement gestureRecognizer(shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWith...) such that sheetInteractionGesture always recognizes simultaneously with any other gesture.
Finally, set SheetInteraction.delegate, and implement SheetInteractionDelegate in order to drive user-interface changes while user interaction is happening.
On interaction change, to make user-interface updates that vary according to the current detent, use sheetInteraction.animating(<detentToAnimateWith>, interactionChange: interactionChange). The animation block provides a percentageAnimating value that ranges from 0-1, where 0 is equal to the next smallest detent, and 1 is equal to the specified detent. In other words, this value approaches 1 when user is moving the sheet to a larger detent, and vice-versa.
On interaction change, use the value interactionChange.percentageTotal to make user-interface updates that vary based on a sheet's overall position relative to its window.
On interaction end, use sheetInteraction.sheetController.detent(withIdentifier: targetDetentInfo.detentIdentifier) to get the target detent. You may also wish to use the custom detent.greaterThan(<anotherDetent>) comparison function to make user-interface updates that are applicable to more than one detent. For example:
if targetDetent.greaterThan(.mediumSmall(), in: sheetInteraction.sheetController) == true {
/// e.g. Show or hide user-interface element(s) that only apply to detents larger than `mediumSmall()`.
}
SheetInteractioncannot be used with UIKit system detents. You must create custom detents usingDetent.custom(...). If not, your sheet will crash on_containerBounds.- Do not set
UISheetPresentationController.prefersGrabberVisible = true. UIKit's default grabber view steals touches fromSheetInteraction.
Handling keyboard events:
UISheetPresentationControllerdoes not updateselectedDetentIdentifierwhen keyboard (dis)appears via user interaction or programmatic change. This is true when using system detents, custom detents, or a mix of both.- To properly respond to sheet detent changes triggered by keyboard (dis)appearance:
- ......
SheetInteraction adds a pan gesture recognizer to the sheetView provided to it. That pan gesture is what enables SheetInteraction to determine when a user begins, changes, and ends interacting with a modal sheet.
During the begin and end phases, SheetInteraction relies on the sheetView's UISheetPresentationController to provide it with the currently selected detent.
During the change phase, SheetInteraction uses the sheet's layout metrics provided by SheetLayoutInfo to generate a set of detentLayoutInfo for all active detents. SheetLayoutInfo is a set of layout measurements for the sheet relative to the sheet's window (apart from the sheet's frame, this is mostly static layout data). The set of detentLayoutInfo is specific to each active detent, and is only valid during user interaction.