Non-Modal view without NavigationController

Question

I have an app built from the UITabBarController starter project. The first tab is part of the main.xib that contains the tab bar. I would like to slide a view up from the bottom on top of that tab's view that only covers part of the screen. My understanding is that you can only cover part of the screen if you make the top view non-modal, but I don't see a way to do that without a NavigationController.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

presentModalViewController: is actually a method that belongs to UIViewController, the superclass of UINavigationController, so you can use it from any view controller, not just a navigation controller.

Answer 2

you can add a UIView as a subview to the current view, and then animate its appearance into the screen using animation blocks, or Quartz or however you would like.

Answer 3

Have you tried using a UIActionSheet? That's an easy way to get a view with a few buttons for user input to slide up and only cover the bottom portion of the current view.