How to I conceal the search bar and make it appear when a button is pressed

Question

How to make a SearchBar Controller hide itself when the view is loaded and then appears when a button is pressed before disappearing again when you scroll upwards. Snapping the search function right up and concealing it until the button is pressed again.

Am I doing this right? I've looked up tutorials and they all point to adding the Searchbar to a TableHeaderView. I wonder is there a TableHeaderview when the TableView is set to static.

Thanks a lot guys

Answer 1

This may not be what you're looking for but this will work.

In your viewdidload:

YourTextFied.alpha = 0.0

Change YourTextField to the name of your outlet and that will hide the code when the view loads.

When the button is pressed simply run the code:

YourTextField.alpha = 1.0

Answer 2

you can use view.hidden = true before the view get loaded and then view.hidden = false when button get pressed

Answer 3

Nevermind, I found a really good guide here to animate a searchbar at the navigation bar when the search button is pressed.

How to animate add UISearchBar on top of UINavigationBar

thanks!