Found the better solution for this problem 🙂 – (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText{ if ([searchText length] == 0) { [self performSelector:@selector(hideKeyboardWithSearchBar:) withObject:searchBar afterDelay:0]; } } – (void)hideKeyboardWithSearchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar{ [searchBar resignFirstResponder]; }
I found a solution. You can use this for-loop to loop over the subviews of the search bar and enable it when the search button is pressed on the keyboard. for (UIView *possibleButton in searchBar.subviews) { if ([possibleButton isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) { UIButton *cancelButton = (UIButton*)possibleButton; cancelButton.enabled = YES; break; } }
I found answers for my own questions. Here is code , add in AppDelegate if you want to change all cancel button. [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor redColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 1)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; Swift: let attributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.red] UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .normal)
The searchIcon is located in the leftView of the searchTextField. Since this is accessible we can easily set the tintColor for the view. The tintColor is also used for the searchIcon. So in your code you can change the search icon to white with the following code: searchBar.searchTextField.leftView?.tintColor = .white
here is a little trick that i just figured out and also you have to return 0 results while editing searchstring – (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString { savedSearchTerm = searchString; [controller.searchResultsTableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithWhite:0.0 alpha:0.8]]; [controller.searchResultsTableView setRowHeight:800]; [controller.searchResultsTableView setScrollEnabled:NO]; return NO; } – (void)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller didHideSearchResultsTableView:(UITableView *)tableView { // undo the changes above to prevent artefacts … Read more
A future-proof way: [searchBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]]; [searchBar setTranslucent:YES];
I don’t think there’s an easy way to hook into the X button. However, you can hook into its direct consequence: cleared text. Try this: func searchBar(searchBar: UISearchBar, textDidChange searchText: String) { if searchText == “” { print(“UISearchBar.text cleared!”) } } The side effect is this also gets called when you manually clear your text.
Set your tint color to the color you want the cancel button to be and then use the UIAppearance Protocol to change the tint color on the text field to be the color you wish the cursor to be. Ex: [self.searchBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; [[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTintColor:[UIColor darkGrayColor]];
By IOS 5.0 you have the chance to use [[UISearchBar appearance] setSearchFieldBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@”searchbar.png”]forState:UIControlStateNormal];
I used some thing like this and worked with me: [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn: [UISearchBar class], nil] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; it changed the cancel button color to black. Update for iOS 9.0, the method appearanceWhenContainedIn is deprecated, use appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses instead: [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; And in Swift 3: UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf:[UISearchBar.self]).tintColor = UIColor.black