blackjacx / shsearchbar

The search bar that doesn't suck.

SHSearchBar

The clean and shiny search bar that does what UISearchBar does only with dirty hacks. This view is designed to tackle the customization limits of UISearchBar. The difference here is that this class does not inherit UISearchBar but composes a new UIView object by using a UITextField that is much easier to use. These are the limits of the UISearchBar:

• no clean way to left align the placeholder
• the cancel button is hard to tailor to your needs
• generally the appearance is not customizable (e.g. the font of the text)
• there are some strange behaviors when you set a custom background image

Since I use a UITextField these restrictions do not apply.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

In Xcode open your target list and select your project. Click the tab Swift Packages and there the small + icon. Enter the URL of this repository, select the version you want to install - usually the preset is okay - and confirm.

CocoaPods

Since SHSearchBar uses localized resources I dropped CocoaPods support in favor of SPM from version 2.0.0. Please integrate the package via SPM (see above).

Carthage

Since SHSearchBar uses localized resources I dropped Carthage support in favor of SPM from version 2.0.0. Please integrate the package via SPM (see above).

Examples

The repo includes an example project. It shows shows different use cases of the search bar. To run it, just open and run ./Example/SHSearchBarExample.xcodeproj. The following images show some use cases:

You can show a custom placeholder like for normal text fields:

And you can even type text into that searchbar:

Wow there are customizable accessory views too:

Easily customize text and cancel button as you want:

You can customize each corner radius of the text field so that layouts like this become an ease:

The inner text field supports the new iOS 10 'textContentMode':
(Re-uses the address searched in Apple Maps before)

You can use the search bar inside a UINavigationBar:

Code Documentation

The code documentation is generated and hosted by Swift Package Index (powered by DocC)

Release

To release this Swift package the following steps have to be taken:

• Create a new branch release-x.y.z
• Run bash <(curl -H -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blackjacx/Scripts/master/frameworks/bootstrap.sh) to update to the latest shared development files
• Run bundle update to update all Ruby gems
• Commit all changes, make a PR and merge it to develop
• Run bundle exec fastlane release framework:"SHSearchBar" version:"x.y.z" to release the new version
• Post the following on Twitter

SHSearchBar release x.y.z 🎉

▸ 🚀  SHSearchBar (x.y.z) successfully published
▸ 📅  September 2nd
▸ 🌎  https://swiftpackageindex.com/Blackjacx/SHSearchBar
▸ 🌎  https://github.com/Blackjacx/SHSearchBar/releases/latest
▸ 👍  Tell your friends!

#spm #search #ios #apple #xcode #uisearchbar #swiftpackagemanager

Contribution

• If you found a bug, please open an issue.
• If you have a feature request, please open an issue.
• If you want to contribute, please submit a pull request.

Author

Stefan Herold • 🐦 @Blackjacxxx

Contributors

Thanks to all of you who are part of this:

License

SHSearchBar is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.