Adjusting height of UITextView to its text does not work properly - ios

Question

I wrote following code to fit UITextView's height to its text.
The size changes but top margin relative to first line of text differ every other time when I tap enter key on keyboard to add new line.
Setting
xCode 7.3
Deployment target: iOS 9
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextViewDelegate {
lazy var textView: UITextView = {
let tv = UITextView(frame: CGRectMake(20, 200, (self.view.frame.width - 40), 0) )
tv.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor()
return tv
}()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
view.addSubview( textView )
textView.delegate = self
let height = self.height(textView)
let frame = CGRectMake(textView.frame.origin.x, textView.frame.origin.y, textView.frame.width, height)
textView.frame = frame
}
func textViewDidChange(textView: UITextView) {
let frame = CGRect(x: textView.frame.origin.x, y: textView.frame.origin.y, width: textView.frame.width, height: height(textView) )
textView.frame = frame
}
func height(textView: UITextView) -> CGFloat {
let size = CGSizeMake(textView.frame.size.width, CGFloat.max)
let height = textView.sizeThatFits(size).height
return height
}
}
I tried few other ways to fit UITextView height but they just acted the same say.

Answer 1

To fix this, subclass UITextView and override setContentOffset to allow scrolling only if the content height is larger than the intrinsic content height. Something like:
override func setContentOffset(_ contentOffset: CGPoint, animated: Bool) {
let allowScrolling = (contentSize.height > intrinsicContentSize.height)
if allowScrolling {
super.setContentOffset(contentOffset, animated: animated)
}
}
For auto-growing dynamic height text view, the caret moves on starting a new line. At this moment, the size of the text view hasn't grown to the new size yet. The text view tries to make the caret visible by scrolling the text content which is unnecessary.
You may also need to override intrinsicContentSize too.