I am currently trying to access the height of a view which I previously set anchors for. So for example, I set the left, right, top, and bottom anchors of searchTable using the following in my ViewController:
searchTable.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
searchTable.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor).isActive = true
searchTable.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.widthAnchor).isActive = true
searchTable.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: menuBar.topAnchor).isActive = true
searchTable is an object of a class that I created that inherits from UIView and has a UIImageView in it. I constrain the UIImageView by using the following in the init function:
imageView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topContainer.topAnchor, constant: 10).isActive = true
imageView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topContainer.leftAnchor, constant: 10).isActive = true
imageView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.heightAnchor, multiplier: topContainerMultiplier * imageProfileMultiplier).isActive = true
imageView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.heightAnchor, multiplier: topContainerMultiplier * imageProfileMultiplier).isActive = true
where:
let topContainerMultipler: Double = 1 / 7
let imageProfileMultipler: Double = 1 / 5
Inside the init function of searchTable, I try want to be able to set the corner radius to be half the image size. I tried to use self.frame.height, self.frame.size.height, self.bounds.height and also getting the .constant value of the self.heightAnchor constraint, but all returns 0.
I would think that there is a solution to get around this, but I haven't been able to find it.
You are querying the height of your view's frame after defining your constraints, but before layout has actually resolved those constraints into a frame rectangle. One approach would be to call layoutIfNeeded to force layout to happen immediately, then use view.frame.size.height. The init method is probably not an appropriate place to do this, as opposed to perhaps inside viewDidLoad on the controller. Or you might do this in viewDidLayoutSubviews to recalculate the corner radius every time your view's layout is updated (in which case you won't need layoutIfNeeded).
Don't use a height constraint if you already use top, bottom, leading, and trailing.
Try to visually debug your view by adding a background color, or using the debug view hierarchy button.
To get the height of a view you should use view.frame.size.height
EDIT (OP question edited)
Your problem is that you try to access the object height when it's just initialized but not displayed yet. You should create a function that update your UI and call it after your view is loaded.
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I need to add a containerView inside a UIScrollView, and then add multiple subviews in the containerView. For some reason, the containerView does not respect the top/bottom/left/rightAnchor constraints, but it works with width/height/centerX/centerYAnchor
NOTE: If the superview is a UIView instead of a UIScrollView, it works fine.
The project is 100% code based. Using Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4
This does not work
containerView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.topAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
This works
containerView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.widthAnchor).isActive = true
containerView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.heightAnchor).isActive = true
containerView.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.centerXAnchor).isActive = true
containerView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.centerYAnchor).isActive = true
In both cases the scrollView.constraints array includes 4 constraints total.
The interesting thing is that the printout of them is different. Some of the constraints that don't work (.top and .left) are printed using the Autolayout Visual Format Language. Also, note the (LTR) in the third one:
ScrollView [
<NSLayoutConstraint:V:|-(0)-[UIView] (active, names: '|':UIScrollView:)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.bottom == UIScrollView.bottom (active)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:H:|-(0)-[UIView](LTR) (active, names: '|':UIScrollView:)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.right == UIScrollView.right (active)>]
The constraints that work are printed as follows:
ScrollView [
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.width == UIScrollView.width (active)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.height == UIScrollView.height (active)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.centerX == UIScrollView.centerX (active)>,
<NSLayoutConstraint:UIView.centerY == UIScrollView.centerY (active)>]
I researched StackOverflow and found a couple of questions like this, but they didn't really help me explain what the problem is (or the UIScrollView requirements for constraints).
Any ideas?
UIScrollView needs some contents in it to be scrolled. The view you are adding (inside scrollview), does not have size (height and width), so scroll view can't identify size of its content.
Add size for a view (inside scrollview) and it will work.
containerView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.topAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.leftAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
containerView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.rightAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
// Size constraints
containerView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.widthAnchor).isActive = true
containerView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.heightAnchor).isActive = true
// To check scrolling of container view; try this
containerView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.widthAnchor + 50.0).isActive = true
containerView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView.heightAnchor + 50.0).isActive = true
It's because the UIScrollView requires it's contentSize to be set in some way. By anchoring the UIView's layout to the sides of the UIScrollView, auto layout still doesn't have an explicit idea of what contentSize of the UIScrollView.
Since the UIScrollView is probably anchored to some parent view, the height and width of the UIScrollView is already defined. By giving a UIView these constraints, auto layout can determine the size of the UIView and then use that size to set the contentSize of the UIScrollView.
Go through the following points in order to use scrollview in your application.
1. First add UIScrollview and give it constrain in view(left, right,width,height).[![enter image description here][1]][1]
2. Now each scrollview has content view which should be there , we cannot add our required views directly to UIScrollview.
3. Add view to scrollview(we name it content view) , give it top,bottom, left and right constrain. Apart from these we need to add height and width constrain to the content view.
4. If you want to have vertical scrollview then give width equal to scrollview and a proper height (like height constrain = 600)or greater than scrollview height.
5. If you want to have horizontal scrollview then give height equal to scrollview and width greater than actual width of scrollview.
Have a look at the constrain of content view added below
I have a UIView in my swift code
let profile_inf_wrapper: UIView = {
let v = UIView()
v.backgroundColor = .red
v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
return v
}()
profile_inf_wrapper.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor, constant:64).isActive = true
profile_inf_wrapper.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor).isActive = true
profile_inf_wrapper.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.rightAnchor).isActive = true
profile_inf_wrapper.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: view.frame.height/4).isActive = true
backgroundImageView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.topAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundImageView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.leftAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundImageView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.rightAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundImageView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
profileImage.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.centerYAnchor).isActive = true
profileImage.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor, constant:25).isActive = true
profileImage.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 110).isActive = true
profileImage.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 110).isActive = true
usernameLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profile_inf_wrapper.topAnchor, constant:40).isActive = true
usernameLabel.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profileImage.rightAnchor, constant:20).isActive = true
countryIcon.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: usernameLabel.bottomAnchor, constant:10).isActive = true
countryIcon.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: profileImage.rightAnchor, constant:20).isActive = true
countryIcon.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 25).isActive = true
countryIcon.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 25 ).isActive = true
countryName.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: usernameLabel.bottomAnchor, constant:5).isActive = true
countryName.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: countryIcon.rightAnchor, constant:10).isActive = true
countryName.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.rightAnchor).isActive = true
All these elements are the subviews of profile_inf_wrapper.Sometimes view.frame.height/4 is too small and i want to be able to resize the UIView based on it's content
There's a property in UIView called intrinsicContentSize. It returns the smallest size that the view would need show all of it's content.
While the default implementation is not very useful because a UIView doesn't have any content on it's own, all of the default subclasses implement it.
A UILabel will return a size that fits the text perfectly, and a UIButton will return a size that fits it's contents plus whatever spacing you've added. You get the gist of it.
You can take advantage of this property by only constraining either width or height of a view, not both. If you constrain the width of a UILabel and add more text, it will grow vertically.
Finally, when you add subviews to a UIView, and you add constraints to both margins of an axis (top and bottom or left and right), as long as there's a "chain" of constraints and views, and the view doesn't have any constraints on the size, it will expand to fit.
For example, if you have a view with a label and a button, vertically arranged, if the label is constrained to the top, then constrained to the button, and the button is constrained to the bottom, as long as the container view doesn't have a height constraint, it will expand to fit the two views plus the margins perfectly.
Your goal should always be to use the least amount of constraints to express your design, without removing useful constraints. Make sure you take advantage of the intrinsicContentSize.
For setting the height of uiview dynamically you have to add height/bottom constraint to the view in your problem it might be
profile_inf_wrapper.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: view.frame.height/4+countryName.frame.size.height).isActive = true
you also need the view size to fit to get actual updated size
like
countryName.sizeToFit()
And then update layout if needed to get all affect
The first thing you want to do is make a reference to the height constraint of profile_inf_wrapper.
var profile_inf_wrapper_height_constraint: NSLayoutConstraint?
I don't know the details of your content, but when the view needs resized, you can check that with a conditional in your viewController,
if contentRequiresResizing {
profile_inf_wrapper_height_constraint.constant = view.frame.width/3
else {
profile_inf_wrapper_height_constraint.constant = view.frame.width/4
}
By referencing constraints, it allows you to support dynamic UI changes easily.
As a side note, I would recommend renaming your UIView variable name so that the reference constraint isn't so long. The Swift 3 API guidelines also support lowerCamelCase, as opposed to underscore naming.
Let's assume I have 4 views, 3 in a row and 1 in another row. The ones at the first row have dynamic height and we have no idea how tall they are.
I want to achieve the result from this image:
Basically I want to set View 4's top to bottom of highest view in first row. How can I achieve this?
Use greaterThanOrEqualTo:
view4.topAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualTo: view1.bottomAnchor, constant: 10).isActive = true
view4.topAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualTo: view2.bottomAnchor, constant: 10).isActive = true
view4.topAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualTo: view3.bottomAnchor, constant: 10).isActive = true
Put View1, View2 and View3 inside UIStackView (or regular UIView), and then add constraint between bottom of this new view and top of View4
so as you will see below I have a scrollview and I want to add it the the UIViewControllers root view. When I have it constrained to the top, right, bottom, and left I expect to see the red color take up the whole screen. This obviously works, but I want to add a subview to the scrollview that will wrap all the child views. How would I go about doing that?
I have added the view and I have set the same constraints except this time they are set from the wrapper view to the bounds of the UIScrollView, and the blue background color doesn't show anywhere. Also feel free to point out if this is a bad idea, but I thought I could just have it be constrained to the bottom and it will automatically extend the scrollviews content size as needed. This seems to work when I had all the subviews in the scrollview without a wrapper and the last view would extend the content size.
scrollView = UIScrollView(frame: view.bounds)
scrollView?.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = true
scrollView?.backgroundColor = .red
scrollView?.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
view.addSubview(scrollView!)
scrollView?.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
scrollView?.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor).isActive = true
scrollView?.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.rightAnchor).isActive = true
scrollView?.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
//setup wrapper view
let subviewWrapper = UIView()
subviewWrapper.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
scrollView?.addSubview(subviewWrapper)
subviewWrapper.backgroundColor = .blue
subviewWrapper.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: (scrollView?.topAnchor)!).isActive = true
subviewWrapper.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: (scrollView?.leftAnchor)!).isActive = true
subviewWrapper.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: (scrollView?.rightAnchor)!).isActive = true
subviewWrapper.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: (scrollView?.bottomAnchor)!).isActive = true
Actually this is a very good idea. I always set up my scrollViews this way. I usually call the view contentView, but it is the same idea.
You're almost there. You haven't yet given Auto Layout anything to go on to figure out the size of your subviewWrapper. The constraints you've set so far pin the subviewWrapper to the edges of the scrollView's content area, but this just establishes the fact that as the subviewWrapper grows, the content size of the scrollView will expand. Currently your subviewWrapper has 0 width and 0 height which is why you see no blue.
Below are 3 examples of how you might establish the size of your subviewWrapper.
Note: Each of the following examples is completely independent. Look at each one separately and as you try them, remember to delete the constraints added by the previous example.
Example 1: Make subviewWrapper 1000 x 1000:
Set constraints to make your subviewWrapper 1000 x 1000 and you will see the blue and it will scroll in both directions.
subviewWrapper.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 1000).isActive = true
subviewWrapper.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 1000).isActive = true
Example 2: Vertical only scrolling with content size 2X of scrollView height:
If you set the width of your subviewWrapper to be equal to the width of the scrollView then it will only scroll vertically. If you set the height of subviewWrapper to 2X the height of scrollView, then your blue area will be twice the height of the scrollView.
subviewWrapper.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView!.widthAnchor, multiplier: 1.0).isActive = true
subviewWrapper.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: scrollView!.heightAnchor, multiplier: 2.0).isActive = true
Example 3: Size of subviewWrapper set by its subviews:
You can also establish the size of your subviewWrapper by adding subviews to it that are fully specified in size and connected in a chain from the top of subviewWrapper to the bottom, and from side to side. If you do this, Auto Layout will have enough information to compute the size of your subviewWrapper
In this example, I've added a yellow 600 x 600 square to the subviewWrapper and set it 100 points from each edge. Without having explicitly set a size for subviewWrapper, Auto Layout can figure out that it is 800 x 800.
let yellowSquare = UIView()
yellowSquare.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
yellowSquare.backgroundColor = .yellow
subviewWrapper.addSubview(yellowSquare)
yellowSquare.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 600).isActive = true
yellowSquare.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 600).isActive = true
yellowSquare.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: subviewWrapper.topAnchor, constant: 100).isActive = true
yellowSquare.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: subviewWrapper.leadingAnchor, constant: 100).isActive = true
yellowSquare.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: subviewWrapper.trailingAnchor, constant: -100).isActive = true
yellowSquare.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: subviewWrapper.bottomAnchor, constant: -100).isActive = true
I'm developing iMessage Extension app.
My problem is that the collection view is visible behind navigation bar(I think navbar is automatically produced by iMessage Extension) in expand mode.
We can see collectionview (with transparency) behind navbar.
Is there anybody who has experience in this area?
Looking for any help.
After give Constraints(Top:0,Left:0,Right:0,Bottom:0),you should give Top Constraints of CollectionView to Top Layout Guide.Bottom ratherthan Superview.Top like this:
CollectionView.Top = Top Layout Guide.Bottom is set to 0.
In viewDidLoad():
CollectionView.frame = view.bounds
CollectionView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
CollectionView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leftAnchor).isActive = true
CollectionView.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.rightAnchor).isActive = true
CollectionView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
CollectionView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
Referring to #seggy question comment:
have you set constraint perfectly?
You answered:
Yeah, of course, top:0, left:0, right:0, bottom: 0
The top constraint should be equals to 64 (it seems the top constraint is between the collectionView and the container view, not between the collectionView and the navigation bar).
Also, you might need to change the bottom constraint's constant value.
Hope this helped.