🔍 An elegant search controller which replaces the UISearchController for iOS (iPhone & iPad) .
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- 🔍 An elegant search controller for iOS.
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Features
- [x] Support a variety of hot search style
- [x] Support a variety of search history style
- [x] Support a variety of search results display mode
- [x] Support a variety of search view controller display mode
- [x] Support search suggestions
- [x] Support search history (record) cache
- [x] Support callback using delegate or block completion search
- [x] Support CocoaPods
- [x] Support localization
- [x] Support vertical and horizontal screen on iPhone and iPad
Requirements
- iOS 7.0 or later
- Xcode 7.0 or later
Architecture
Main
PYSearchPYSearchConstPYSearchViewControllerPYSearchSuggestionViewController
Category
UIColor+PYSearchExtensionUIView+PYSearchExtensionNSBundle+PYSearchExtension
Contents
- Getting Started
- Usage
Renderings

Styles
Hot search style


Search history style


How to use
- Use CocoaPods:
pod "PYSearch"
- Import the main file:#import <PYSearch.h>
- Manual import:
PYSearch folder to project
- Import the main file:#import "PYSearch.h"
Details (See the example program PYSearchExample for details)
// 1. Create hotSearches array
NSArray *hotSeaches = @[@"Java", @"Python", @"Objective-C", @"Swift", @"C", @"C++", @"PHP", @"C#", @"Perl", @"Go", @"JavaScript", @"R", @"Ruby", @"MATLAB"];
// 2. Create searchViewController
PYSearchViewController searchViewController = [PYSearchViewController searchViewControllerWithHotSearches:hotSeaches searchBarPlaceholder:@"Search programming language" didSearchBlock:^(PYSearchViewController searchViewController, UISearchBar searchBar, NSString searchText) {
// Call this Block when completion search automatically
// Such as: Push to a view controller
[searchViewController.navigationController pushViewController:[[UIViewController alloc] init] animated:YES];
}];
// 3. present the searchViewController
UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:searchViewController];
[self presentViewController:nav animated:NO completion:nil];
Custom
- Custom search suggestions display
// 1. Set dataSource
searchViewController.dataSource = self;
// 2. Implement dataSource method
- Custom search result dispaly
// 1. Set searchResultShowMode
searchViewController.searchResultShowMode = PYSearchResultShowModeEmbed;
// 2. Set searchResultController
searchViewController.searchResultController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
- Set hotSearchStyle(default is PYHotSearchStyleNormalTag)
// Set hotSearchStyle
searchViewController.hotSearchStyle = PYHotSearchStyleColorfulTag;
- Set searchHistoryStyle(default is PYSearchHistoryStyleCell)
// Set searchHistoryStyle
searchViewController.searchHistoryStyle = PYSearchHistoryStyleBorderTag;
- Set searchHistoriesCachePath(default is PYSEARCHSEARCHHISTORYCACHEPATH)
// Set searchHistoriesCachePath
searchViewController.searchHistoriesCachePath = @"The cache path";
- Set searchHistoriesCount(default is 20)
// Set searchHistoriesCount
searchViewController. searchHistoriesCount = 6;
- Set searchResultShowMode(default is PYSearchResultShowModeCustom)
// Set searchResultShowMode
searchViewController.searchResultShowMode = PYSearchResultShowModeEmbed;
- Set searchSuggestionHidden(deafult is NO)
// Set searchSuggestionHidden
searchViewController.searchSuggestionHidden = YES;
Hope
- If you have any questions during the process or want more interfaces to customize,you can issues me!
- Instead of giving me star, it is better to throw a bug to me!
- If you want to participate in the maintenance of this project or have a good design style, welcome to pull request!
- If you feel slightly discomfort in use, please contact me QQ:499491531 or Email:499491531@qq.com.
- Hope to improve this project together, let it become more powerful, able to meet the needs of most users!
Licenses
All source code is licensed under the MIT License.🔗 More in this category