How to add a UIView above the current UITableViewController

Question

I have difficulty adding a subview (UIView) from within the viewDidLoad method of a UITableViewController

This works:

[self.view addSubview:self.progView];

But you can see the table cell lines bleed through the UIView progView.

I've tried this approach:

[self.view.superview insertSubview:self.progView aboveSubview:self.view];

Which is an attempt to add the progView, UIView to the superview, above the current view. When I try this, the UIView never appears.

-- UPDATE --

Following is the latest attempt:

UIView *myProgView = (UIView *)self.progView; //progView is a method that returns a UIView

[self.tableView insertSubview:myProgView aboveSubview:self.tableView]; 
[self.tableView bringSubviewToFront:myProgView];

Result is the same as [self.view addSubview:self.progView]; The UIView appears but seemingly behind the Table.

Answer 1

I tried the approach above, but did not get it to work. I also found it to require too much configuration and code, since it requires setting up the table view from scratch (something that is easily done from within the storyboard).

Instead, I added the view that I wanted to add above my UITableView into the UITableViewController's UINavigationController's view, as such:

[self.navigationController.view addSubview:<view to add above the table view>];

This approach requires that you have embedded the UITableViewController in a UINavigationController, but even if you do not want a navigation controller, you can still use this approach and just hide the navigation bar.