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kockburn
kockburn

Reputation: 17636

How to set the searchBar as the global focus for Siri on the Search Page?

Description

In my tvOS application, I have a search page with on top a Search Bar and under a Table View with the eventual list of results.

While we are focusing the searchBar and the user presses the voice for Siri, the results get inserted into the Search Bar (as expected). However, when the user is scrolling down through the results and is unable to find what they're looking for, they have to scroll up (all the way back up) to the searchBar to use Siri again.

If the user attempts to use Siri while the searchBar is NOT in focus, a global Siri starts looking for results in different apps (which is not what I want)

Question:

How to set the searchBar as the global focus for Siri on the Search Page?

What I've tried:

To be honest I have no idea how to go about this..

A function is called in AppDelegate.swift to create the Search View Controller and add it to the Tab Bar Controller.

I've thought about trying preferedFocusView but after reading the documentation, I doubt that's going to work.

func configueSearchController() -> UIViewController {

        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Search", bundle: nil)
        guard let searchResultsController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: SearchViewController.storyboardIdentifier) as? SearchViewController else {
            fatalError("Unable to instatiate a SearchResultViewController from the storyboard.")
        }

        /*
         Create a UISearchController, passing the `searchResultsController` to
         use to display search results.
         */

        let searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: searchResultsController)
        searchController.searchResultsUpdater = searchResultsController
        searchController.searchBar.placeholder = NSLocalizedString("Enter keyword (e.g. Gastric Bypass)", comment: "")
        searchController.view.backgroundColor = Constants.Color.backgroundcolor
        searchController.searchBar.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearance.dark
        searchController.searchBar.tintColor = Constants.Color.backgroundcolor
        searchController.searchBar.backgroundColor = Constants.Color.backgroundSearchBarColor
        searchController.searchBar.setTextColor(color: .white)
        searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false
        searchController.obscuresBackgroundDuringPresentation = true
        searchController.searchBar.searchBarStyle = .minimal
        searchController.searchBar.sizeToFit()
        searchController.searchBar.focus


        //TODO: Check if this works
        searchController.searchBar.accessibilityLanguage = "en"

        //searchResultsController.tableView.tableHeaderView = searchController.searchBar

        // Contain the `UISearchController` in a `UISearchContainerViewController`.
        let searchContainer: UISearchContainerViewController = UISearchContainerViewController(searchController: searchController)

        // Finally contain the `UISearchContainerViewController` in a `UINavigationController`.
        let searchNavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: searchContainer)
        searchNavigationController.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
        searchNavigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = Constants.Color.backgroundcolor
        searchNavigationController.tabBarItem.title = "Search"
        return searchNavigationController

}

Upvotes: 6

Views: 964

Answers (1)

Laxman Sahni
Laxman Sahni

Reputation: 612

Please read http://nerds.airbnb.com/tvos-focus-engine/ to make controls focusable.

Upvotes: 0

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