• 🔍 An elegant search controller for iOS.

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Features

• Support a variety of hot search style
• Support a variety of search history style
• Support a variety of search results display mode
• Support a variety of search view controller display mode
• Support search suggestions
• Support search history (record) cache
• Support callback using delegate or block completion search
• Support CocoaPods
• Support localization
• Support vertical and horizontal screen on iPhone and iPad

Requirements

• iOS 7.0 or later
• Xcode 7.0 or later

Architecture

Main

• PYSearch
• PYSearchConst
• PYSearchViewController
• PYSearchSuggestionViewController

Category

• UIColor+PYSearchExtension
• UIView+PYSearchExtension
• NSBundle+PYSearchExtension

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Renderings
  • Styles
• Usage
  • How to use
  • Details (See the example program PYSearchExample for details)
  • Custom
• Hope

Renderings

Styles

Hot search style

Search history style

How to use

• Use CocoaPods:
  • pod "PYSearch"
  • Import the main file：#import <PYSearch.h>
• Manual import：
  • Drag All files in the 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 PYSEARCH_SEARCH_HISTORY_CACHE_PATH）

  // 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.