Unable to hide UIView completely - ios

I am trying to hide a UIView but nothing work so far. The UIView is at the bottom of a UITableView, not inside it as a cell. Here is what I tried so far:
self.viContainerLocation.hidden = YES;
self.viContainerLocation.alpha=0.0;
CGRect Conframe = self.viContainerLocation.frame;
Conframe.size.height = self.view.bounds.size.height;
self.viContainerLocation.frame = Conframe;
self.tableView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints=NO;
__block CGRect frame=self.tableView.frame;
frame.size.height= self.view.frame.size.height-frame.origin.y;
frame.size.width=self.view.frame.size.width;
self.tableView.frame=frame;
viContainerLocation is the UIView I am trying to hide. The above code hide all elements inside the UIView, but leaves a white space with the dimensions of the UIView.
For a reason I don't understand, viContainerLocation is hidden when I use this code:
[UIView transitionWithView:self.viContainerLocation
duration:0.0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionCrossDissolve
animations:^{ }
completion:^(BOOL finish){
__block CGRect frame=self.tableView.frame;
frame.size.height= self.view.frame.size.height-frame.origin.y;
frame.size.width=self.view.frame.size.width;
self.tableView.frame=frame;
}];
But using this code the white space gets displayed of a fraction of a second and it doesn't look good.
How can I make it go away from the beginning ?

You are misunderstanding something.
When hidding an UIView, the space occupied by this view is still visible.
If you want your tableview filling the missing space, the quickest way is to ember your tableview and your view into a UIStackView.
In a UIStackView when you set one subview to isHidden=true, the view is removed, and other views fill the left space.
More infos here : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uistackview

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iMessage Extension: UITextView in Child View Controller, scrolling behaviour has multiple issues

I have a very basic view controller in an iMessage Extension. (Expanded view of course). I am aware that you can not have keyboard input int the Compact view...
The UITextView is constrained to the Element above it, and below it. It has a set height and width. The constraints are all in order, and are not broken.
All the options on the textview in interface builder have been left as DEFAULTS.
The following problems occur with the UITextView:
When I begin editing, the cursor is barely visible. (on the bottom of the field, half way cut off vertically).
Typing the first letter brings the cursor to the vertical centre of the Text View.
Putting a new line and then a character, puts the cursor back down again.
Then typing subsequent characters after that will bring the cursor to the Vertical Centre again. And every other character scrolls the whole text view to the bottom again. So you get this weird bounce up and down behaviour with every key stroke.
The Scroll Bar visual hint on the right side does not reflect the proper height of the text view, when I scroll. (The scroll bar only goes down half way - of the text view's height.)
I expect the UITextView to work like this by default:
Cursor should go to the TOP of the text view, when activated and editing.
Text View should not jump when typing keys after a new line.
Vertical Scroll Bar indicator should show the full range of the text field, and not half of it.
So, obviously the internal Scroll View inside the Text View has a problem figuring out the sizes of things.
Does anyone know, if this is an iMessage specific issue, or whether anyone has had this problem outside of iMessage as well, and how to fix?
My IB constraints (The second view down is the text view):
Video Demo of the problem:
https://youtu.be/1bkvHnkXLWM
UPDATE: I am using Child View Controllers to embed my View Controller inside the Root Controller. I have tried a blank Hello World application, and the UITextView works normally by default. So the issue, therefore is related to the way i'm embedding a Child View Controller.
This is the code I'm using to embed my Child View Controller:
- (void)showViewController:(UIViewController*)vcToShow isPop:(BOOL)isPop
{
NSLog(#"Presenting Controller: %#", vcToShow);
[self.activeVC willMoveToParentViewController:nil];
[self addChildViewController:vcToShow];
vcToShow.view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
vcToShow.view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
[self.rootView addControls:#[vcToShow.view]
align:VerticalAlignStretchToFullHeight];
UIViewController* currentVC = self.activeVC;
self.activeVC = vcToShow;
vcToShow.view.alpha = 0.0f;
[self transitionFromViewController:currentVC
toViewController:vcToShow
duration:0.3
options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionNone
animations:^{
vcToShow.view.alpha = 1.0f;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[currentVC removeFromParentViewController];
[vcToShow didMoveToParentViewController:self];
[self updateScreenState];
if (isPop) {
[self removeReferenceToController:currentVC];
}
}];
}
I have a solution.
Instead of using Interface Builder to place my UITextView, I used my own programmatic constraint generation method to create and place the UITextView, only after ViewDidAppear.
My suspicion is that at the time Interface builder rendered the Child VC's view, it did not have everything populated that the UITextView's internal scroll view needed. So the scroll view got initialized with wrong dimension values, and therefore would glitch out on anything scrolling related. After doing everything in viewDidAppear programmatically (in the Child VC), the text view now scrolls properly, and the cursor is always at the beginning, working as expected.
The update code:
Took UITextView out of interface builder completely.
Added it programmatically (called from viewDidAppear):
self.textView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
self.textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
CGFloat topPadding = self.instructionLabel.frame.origin.y + self.instructionLabel.frame.size.height + TEXT_VIEW_TOP_PADDING;
// This custom method generates Visual Constraint format for me
// so i don't have to write manual individual constraint syntax.
[self.rootView addControls:#[self.textView]
align:VerticalAlignTop
withHeight:TEXT_VIEW_HEIGHT
verticalPadding: 0
horizontalPadding: 20
topPadding: topPadding];

Moving UIView from One Tab to another

I'm making this type of screen.
I've used 3 UIButton and programmatically gave them border. The little red line is a UIView. I've provided a constraint to UIView Equal Widths as Trending Button.
Now my question that when user taps the next button this UIView should move to the next one. View Controller is 600x600 and next button is at 200x0 so if I change the value of UIView to 200 that will be hard coded and it'll alter according to the screen size. I want it to be perfect and don't know any other way.UPDATE:I'm using AutoLayout so for this purpose I used [self.buttonBottomView setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:YES]; and when I run the app the buttons were messed up like in the screenshot. I've applied some constraints on buttons.
You can use NSLayoutConstraint ,change it's LeadingConstaint when you tap on the next button.
Code:
- (void)changeSelectedByTapView:(UIView *)tapView {
_currentSelectedView = tapView;
self.lineImageViewLeadingConstaint.constant = tapView.frameX;
self.lineImageViewWidthConstaint.constant = tapView.width;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations:^{
[self.lineImageView.superview layoutIfNeeded];
}];
}
change frame of your UIView.
view.frame = CGRectMake(0+buttonWidth*i, y, width, height);
i is index which is 0 for Trending, 1 for Made by the fans and 2 for your rules.
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How to translate an entire UIView and retain gesture recognition?

I have a UIView "MainView" that initially appears as follows:
The gradient bar is part of MainView, the whitespace beneath is part of a Container View subview.
When the search button in top-right is tapped, I animate a searchBar from offscreen to be visible in the view:
I manage to do this by the following code:
CGRect currentViewFrame = self.view.bounds;
currentViewFrame.origin.y += searchViewHeight;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.4
delay:0.0
usingSpringWithDamping:1.0
initialSpringVelocity:4.0
options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut animations:^{
self.view.frame = currentViewFrame;
}
completion:^(BOOL finished)
{
}];
Visually, the result of this animation is perfect. The entire view shifts, and the searchBar is now on screen. However, the searchBar does not respond to interaction. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I expect this is because the MainView's frame no longer includes the screen area that the searchBar now occupies, so its effectively a gesture deadzone.
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With Objective-C, how can I animate the frame position of a bottom layer without affecting top layers?

I have two UIImageView's, one that is a background that should scroll, and one an avatar that should move positions based on user input.
I'm able to move the avatar with no problem, and I'm able to scroll my background when necessary with:
CGRect oldPos = _fieldView.frame;
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[UIView animateWithDuration:5.0
delay:0.0
options: UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut
animations:^{
[_fieldView setFrame:newPos];
}
completion:^(BOOL finished){
NSLog(#"Done with animation");
}];
However, when this _fieldview scrolls, my avatar on top of it scrolls with it. How can I move my background image without affecting the other images?
A few other settings that may affect this:
I've disabled AutoLayout
My background image mode is set to AspectFill
I'm using a storyboard with a single UIView
Thank you for any suggestions.
EDIT
The avatar, runnerView, is added as a subview of _fieldView, with
[_fieldView addSubview:_runnerView];
You want your background scroll image to not be a superview to your avatar, but sibling view instead.
(Not the best representation, not sure how to make it look better though)
-Main View
--Scroll view
--Avatar
i.e.
[self.view addSubview:backgroundView];
[self.view addSubview:avatarView];
not
-Main View
--Scroll view
---Avatar
i.e.
[backgroundView addSubview:avatarView];
[self.view addSubview:backgroundView];
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uitableview with header like instagram user profile

I've been struggling with this for quite a while now.
I have to implement an user profile similar to what Instagram has in their ios app.
When clicking on the first to buttons on that tab bar like thing all the contents downwards from it changes. The tableview that is displayed on the bottom part has dynamic size so they keep account of that also.
I have something implemented where the top part is a UIView with 5 buttons and based on them the bottom part (witch is like a container view) changes content. And these two (top uiview and bottom container view) are part of UIScrollView. But this way I can't get information back in time on the size about the tableview's size that I want to display in the bottom part in order to modify the UIScrollView's size. And I have a feeling this is a flawed way to do it.
I would really appreciate any ideas oh how to implement this king of interaction. Thank you.
I believe it's a headerView on a UITableView or a UICollectionView, depending on which view mode you have selected. When you tap one of the buttons it changes out the UITableView to a UICollectionView or vice versa.
You want to keep track of the current contentOffset for whichever is being displayed (UICollectionView and UITableView are both subclasses of UIScrollView so you will be able to get this from both) and then set the contentOffset on the view you're switching to.
Setup an ivar for the UIView header subclass so you can easily re-use it.
This is what I have. My problem is that I'm mot getting back in useful time the tableview's frame height from the tableview controller to the UserProfileViewController in order to change the latter's scrollview size. I also feel that I'm somehow doing this backwards so any suggestions are more than welcome.
This view has two parts: an upper part and a lower part. The parent view is a scroll view. What I wanted to achieve with this is having a sort of tab bar in the upper part that will controll waht will appear in the lower part.
The upper part has a flip animation when the upper left button is pressed to reveal another view.
The way this is achieved is by having 2 views: a dummy view and the back view. The dummy view has the front view as a child. The front view is the one that containes all the buttons.
The code for this animation is achieved in this way:
- (IBAction)infoButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:self.hoverView cache:YES];
if ([self.headerView superview]) {
[self.headerView removeFromSuperview];
[self.hoverView addSubview:self.backOfHeaderView];
[self.infoButton removeFromSuperview];
[self.backOfHeaderView addSubview:self.infoButton];
} else {
[self.backOfHeaderView removeFromSuperview];
[self.hoverView addSubview:self.headerView];
[self.infoButton removeFromSuperview];
[self.headerView addSubview:self.infoButton];
}
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
The lower part is made out of a container view that acts as a place holder.
When a button is pressed a different view controller is displayed in the container view.
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In the view controller of the User Profile view there is an instance of the container view and one of a UIViewController that also acts as a placeholder(named currentViewController from now on). When a specific button is pressed it checks if the an instance of the view controller that we want to display already exists. If not it will make one and will set it's tableview's frame to the bounds of the container view. After that it will remove the currentViewController's view from the superview and the currentViewController itself from the parent viewcontroller to make sure that if there is something assigned to these they will not be there. Then it goes and assigns the desired viewcontroller to the currentViewController. It also assigns the desired viewcontroller's containerView instance to the containerview in the parent viewcontroller (the User Profile viewcontroller). At the end it will add the desired viewcontroller as a child to the main viewcontroller (the User Profile viewcontroller) and desired viewcontroller's view to the containerView of the main viewcontroller.
This is the code for one of the buttons:
//Check if there is an instance of the viewcontroller we want to display. If not make one and set it's tableview frame to the container's view bounds
if(!_userWallViewController) {
self.userWallViewController = [[WallViewController alloc] init];
// self.userWallViewController.activityFeedTableView.frame = self.containerView.bounds;
}
[self.userWallViewController.containerView addSubview:self.userWallViewController.activityFeedTableView];
//If the currentviewcontroller adn it's view are already added to the hierarchy remove them
[self.currentViewController.view removeFromSuperview];
[self.currentViewController removeFromParentViewController];
//Add the desired viewcontroller to the currentviewcontroller
self.currentViewController = self.userWallViewController;
//Pass the data needed for the desired viewcontroller to it's instances
self.userWallViewController.searchURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"event/user/%#/", self.userID];
self.userWallViewController.sendCommentURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"event/message/%#", self.userID];
self.userWallViewController.totalCellHeight = ^(float totalCellHeight){
self.userWallViewController.numberOfCells = ^(float numberOfCells){
NSLog(#"The total number of cells: %f", numberOfCells);
NSLog(#"The total cell height: %f", totalCellHeight);
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320.0, totalCellHeight + 172.0 + 33.0);
CGRect newFrame = self.userWallViewController.containerView.frame;
newFrame.size.height = totalCellHeight + 33.0;
self.userWallViewController.containerView.frame = newFrame;
NSLog(#"Container view: %f", self.containerView.frame.size.height);
NSLog(#"Scroll view: %f",self.scrollView.contentSize.height );
};
};
//Add this containerview to the desired viewcontroller's containerView
self.userWallViewController.containerView = self.containerView;
//Add the needed viewcontroller and view to the parent viewcontroller and the containerview
[self addChildViewController:self.userWallViewController];
[self.containerView addSubview:self.userWallViewController.view];
[self performSelector:#selector(changeScrollView) withObject:self afterDelay:0.5];
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[self.userFansViewController.userSimpleTableView removeFromSuperview];
[self.fanOfViewController.userSimpleTableView removeFromSuperview];
[self.userPublishedMovellaListViewController.gridView removeFromSuperview];
[self.userPublishedMovellaListViewController removeFromParentViewController];
self.userPublishedMovellaListViewController = nil;
}
I know this answer is over a year late, but I wanted to state my hypothesis on it...just incase it might help someone else later. Im implementing a similar view and came to this conclusion. Anyone is welcomed to correct me if I'm wrong.
I think that perhaps the top view is a header view and the two options that seem like a collection view and a table view are both collection views.
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