How can I control the keyboard smoothly like a facebook messenger? - ios

in facebook messenger’s chatroom screen, We can scroll up the tableview to slide up keyboard and scroll down the tableview to slide down keyboard. in this situation, the keyboard is following my finger’s scroll action.
I can call the keyboard to show or hide, but i just can listen willShow, didshow, etc.. I can not access keyboard action or animation.
How can I do it?

UIScrollView has a property called keyboardDismissMode that allows you to set different behaviors.
scrollview.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeInteractive;
Simply you can use-
scrollView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag;

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Calling endEditing on a UIView

I have a tableView with two UITextViews. The user can add as many cells as they want by tapping on a "+" button. The tableView starts out with one row (cell). Lets say the user adds some information to the two textViews and then taps the plus button and scrolls to get to it. I call this function to dismiss the keyboard when a user scrolls so it isn't in the way:
override func scrollViewDidScroll(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
self.view.endEditing(true)
}
Now, the keyboard disappears and the user goes to tap on the second row's text field. The tableView jumps up (I think to accommodate the keyboard), but the textField can't be edited (no cursor and keyboard doesn't appear). If I go back up to the first row (row 0), the keyboard appears and I can edit the textView. Why is this happening?
There is a property on scrollView subclasses (e.g TableViews)
tableView.keyboardDismissMode = .OnDrag
Once the user begins a descending drag it dismisses the keyboard
scrollViewDidScroll calls everytime the tableview moves, so when "The tableView jumps up (I think to accommodate the keyboard)" it also calls and close the keyboard. You should add there some confines or put endEditing code in the other place.

dismiss keyboard in textview while scroll

I am new to IOS i tried lot but still i am failed while scrolling when user touches any of the textview keyboard appear return not working.
screenshot for my output screen:
You can dismiss keyboard with dismiss on drag option on Tableview .
scrollView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag;
scrollView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag;

iOS - check if keyboard blocks view

How can I check if the keyboard is blocking my view?
I have UIButton that is in the centre of the screen. I also have a UITextfield that makes the keyboard appears. When I run the app on iPhone 4 the keyboard block the button, but on other models, it doesn't. I have a method that scrolls up the view when the keyboard appears. But I only want to scroll up in case the view is blocked. I can check the model of the iPhone and then decide if to scroll or not, but I thought checking if the Button is blocked would be better. How can I do it?
I solved this problem in an app like so:
Embed the UI for that screen in a UIScrollView, but configure it so that scrolling is not enabled (scrollEnabled property from code, checkbox if you're using a storyboard).
When the keyboard notification is received, get the frame from the button, then call scrollRectToVisible:animated: on the scroll view. It'll move the content the minimum amount necessary to make the button visible, which will be not at all if the screen is big enough.
Using the UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, you can get the height of the keyboard like this:
NSValue *keyboardRect = [notification.userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey];
CGFloat keyboardHeight = MIN(keyboardRect.CGRectValue.size.width, keyboardRect.CGRectValue.size.height);
The get the relevant "lowest" point of your button. (like buttonMaxY = CGRectGetMaxY(yourButton.frame)).
Use the scroll methods you have implemented, but scroll only if necessary: keyboardHeight+buttonMaxY > the height of the screen.
When keyboard is about to appear, a UIKeyboardWillShowNotification notification is posted with the frame of the keyboard. You can calculate and see if the text field frame intersects with the keyboard frame, and scroll.
See documentation on keyboard notifications here.
Following Leo Natan's explanation, you can try something like:
func keyboardWillShow(notification: Notification) {
guard let keyboardFrame = notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? CGRect,
let viewFrame = myView.frame else {
log.error("I cannot calculate keyboard & view frame")
return
}
if keyboardFrame.intersects(viewFrame) {
// view covered by Keyboard
}
}
pay attention to use UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey, you can check this link for further details.

only Scrolling programmatically?

I don't know if this makes sense at all. I have UIScrollView from interface builder hooked it up as an outlet on top of my UIScrollView I have a UIImage view which holds an image called Scroll Background it is an extra half in screen real estate - my app is landscape and the image is an about half the screen taller. The image is hooked up as an outlet too. I have a button on a toolbar that brings up the keyboard when the button is pressed I'd like to programmatically scroll to the bottom of the UIImage view and when it is resigned I'd like to programmatically scroll to the top. I don't want the user to be able to scroll just for the app to scroll programmatically.
I can't seem to get this method to work and I'm not sure why :/
- (void)scrollRectToVisible:(CGRect)rect animated:(BOOL)animated
scrollRectToVisible:animated: is a non-intuative method to use in my opinion. In order to accomplish what you are after you should be able to set userInteractionEnabled to NO on the UIScrollView that will prevent users from scrolling.
Then in order to scroll the view programmatically you can call scrollRectToVisible but you need to give it a CGRect that is representative of the area you want to show. So in your case to scroll to the top:
CGRect visibleFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, CGRectGetWidth(self.view.bounds) , CGRectGetHeight(self.view.bounds));
[self.myScrollView scrollRectToVisible:visibleFrame animated:YES];
Hope this helps!

how to override the swipe gesture in UIWebView?

all, I'm a newbie on ios development.
I want to implement a right swipe gesture to UIWebView, which should have the action specified by me. However, the when the web page is too large that causes the UIWebView has a scroll bar, then my custom left swipe gesture doesn't work at all. In this case, when I swipe right, then the scroll bar will move, instead of triggering my specified action. Is there any way to disable the scroll bar moving action when I swipe right?
Hope my question is clear to you ...
Thanks in advance.
Either add a transparent view over the webview, or make a subclass of UIWebView and override the touchmethods.
you can disable the whole scroll in the UIWebView like this
UIScrollView *scroll = [[webView subviews] lastObject];
if([scroll isKindOfClass:[UIScrollView class]])
{
scroll = (UIScrollView*)scroll;
[scroll setScrollEnabled:NO];
}

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