How to set a view's color to match a translucent navigation bar's color?

Question

I need to increase the height of the navigation bar. For this, I have added a view (of desired height) under the navigation bar. The navigation bar is set to be translucent . So the nav bar color is rendered slightly different than the actual hex value. Now I need to match the navigation bar's color to the view below. Following is the code that I am using.

func setupNavigationBar() {
    title = "Profile"

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: ""), for: .default)
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage(named: "")

    headerView.backgroundColor = navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor
    headerView.isOpaque = false  
}

I am getting different shades as below.

How can i make the view's color to be the same as navigation bar's color? I can get near to the desired color by reducing the view's alpha but I am doubtful about that approach since there is no standard defined regarding it.

PS The navigation bar has to stay translucent.

Answer 1

Set the background colour to clear for the navigation bar using :

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You just need to set opacity of headerView to 0.85

headerView.backgroundColor = navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor
headerView.layer.opacity = 0.85
headerView.isOpaque = false

You can download the sample code from here :

Please ignore other unused code in the sample code.

Explanation:

When you're set navigationController style as translucent then the system automatically take layer opacity 0.85 for UINavigationController

I personally check it by iterating all subview of UINavigationController .

Answer 3

You can set the background color to nil and it will follow the background color.

let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance() 
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground() 
appearance.backgroundColor = nil

navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = 
appearance 

navigationController?.navigationBar.compactAppearance = appearance