iPhone popup menu like iPad popover?

iphone objective-c ipad uipopovercontroller popover

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Solution 1

Have a look at the iPhone UIPopoverController implementation: WEPopover

Solution 2

iOS 8 and later

Beginning with iOS 8, you can use UIPopoverPresentationController for iPhones in addition to iPads.

Setup

Add a UIBarButtonItem to your main View Controller.
Add another View Controller to the storyboard. Change it to the size that you want the popover to be and add any content that you want it to have. For my example I just added a UILabel. If you want a whole menu, then just add a table view or list of buttons.
Add a segue from the bar button item to the view controller that you will use as the popover. Rather than show, choose Present as Popover.

Select the segue in the storyboard and set the identifier to popoverSegue (or whatever string you called it in the code).

In the Attributes inspector for the popover view controller, check Use Preferred Explicit Size and confirm that it is the size you want it to be.

Code

This is the code for the main view controller that has the bar button item in it.

class ViewController: UIViewController, UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate {

    override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
        if segue.identifier == "popoverSegue" {

            let popoverViewController = segue.destinationViewController
            popoverViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
            popoverViewController.popoverPresentationController!.delegate = self

        }
    }

    // MARK: - UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate method

    func adaptivePresentationStyleForPresentationController(controller: UIPresentationController) -> UIModalPresentationStyle {

        // Force popover style
        return UIModalPresentationStyle.None
    }
}

Popover at an arbitrary anchor point

If you want to set the popover to appear somewhere besides a bar button item (on a UIButton for example) then you need to set the sourceView and sourceRect. See this answer for details.

elp over 3 years

How can i implement this popup menu in iphone app like a popover in ipad?

EDIT: This is the best at moment: https://github.com/runway20/PopoverView
elp over 13 years

uhm... how can i implement it? PS: the screenschot above come from iphone app!
user102008 about 13 years

@Paska: which iphone app is this? i'm curious
elp about 13 years

@user102008 I don't remember, but is a view with rounded corner and an arrow image! Nothing so easy!
Dilshan about 12 years

Ya better to stick with action sheet cos most of the iPhone users have used to it.
Luke47 about 12 years

Thank you. Do you know if using WEPopover in my app is ok if I want to put it on the Store?
clozach about 12 years

Should be. I don't know the details since a colleague did the implementation, but we've got a modified version of it in our live app.
Matt almost 12 years

This doesn't work with UIBarButtonItems (in my limited experience anyway)
Herr Grumps over 11 years

It is worth noting that the Facebook iOS app uses this "popover" style on the iPhone, even though standard UIKit only allows popovers on the iPad. Given that there are many users of the Facebook app, one can assume that a large number of people will now be quite accustomed to a popover style display on an iPhone
jjxtra almost 11 years

Also has a lot of memory issues logged
Gordonium almost 8 years

Suragch's answer below is now the standard way of doing this after iOS 8.