UIView slide from side on top of UITabBarController

Question

I'm trying to achieve this behaviour

The view from the right should slide when dragging. I have the dragging behaviour in place, my only problem is that since the view that is dragged is a child of one of the tabbar's viewcontrollers it won't be on top of the UITabbar. How can I arrange my view hierarchy so that when I drag my view it will be on top of the UITabbar?

Answer 1

Add the view higher in the hierarchy. If you do not support rotation, easiest solution would be to add as a subview of the window. If you do support rotation, window subviews are a mess to deal with, so go with the second best - add the subview to the tab bar's superview (normally, a container view of the UITabBarController). Remember to bring your newly added subview to front in the superview.

Cool layout, BTW! Why is the status bar's background a different color from the content?