Align 3 UIButtons to the bottom centre of UIViewController - ios

I have a UIViewController that consists of a UIImageView then I want to provide three options to user namely, rotate, crop, draw.
I want these three buttons to remain always centred at the bottom and maintain an exact distance with the UIImageView.
How can achieve this using auto layout I have done a lot of search as well as work but to no good use.

Set constrain like this ,
First set Constrain to centre button(Crop Button). like,
Crop button :- Bottom spacing from bottomlayout , height and width (According to your requirement), and Centre Horizontally in container (now your crop button is fix in centre)
Rotatebutton:- set Horizontal spacing from crop button , rotate buttons top=cropbuttons top , rotate button's bottom=crop buttons bottom , and Rotate button's height and width equal to Crop button's Height and Width.
(set constrain to draw button same as rotate button)
So, all button's look same .
check in image ,
1) Set constrain to Buttons
2) Now set constrain to imageview
3) Output
Edit :- Here i have attached demo ,
Demo for Centre button

(1) First add ImageView, constraints like this
(2) now add an UIButton in the bottom center named CROP. Give Constraints like this
(3) Now add 2 UIButtons named ROTATE and DRAW on either side of CROP
for ROTATE:
for DRAW:
(4) Finally select 3 buttons and give equalWith Constraint

No need to add Constraint to with ImageView. Add these buttons on a UIView and add the constraint on that view as Horizontally Center and also add ImageView on a UIView. Now add the constraintHorizontally Center on the parent view of Button to the parent of ImageView.

Your scenario should be like below,
left most button should have two constraints(cancel) : leading,bottton
right most button should have two constrains (yellow button) : trailing,bottom
Take one UIVIew and put thhree buttons in that view with equal distance from every side of that uiview.
now your constraints to all three buttons should like : leading,trailing,top and fixed height
And constraints of that uiview should be : horizontally center in container, bottom and fixed height
I am attaching screenshot aswell
You can check constraints from view hierarchy on left side.
I have set gray background color to just demonstrate this is view you not need to set color of that view.
By this way your three buttons will always display to bottom center of your VC
hope this will help :)

Hope the below steps might fix the buttons the way you wanted.Have not tried myself but you can try out if you have not tested these steps.
1.Pin those buttons to the bottom space container
2.Add a constraint from button to top space to image view
3.Play around horizontal spaces between buttons by pinning leading edge to the view for the left most button and trailing space to the view from right most button
4.Check center horizontally/vertically to the container

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One Picture worth more than 1000 words
Second requirement
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Hope this helps
It can actually be done with a single constraint. Just align the center of both your views like this:
If you also look at the remaining constraints, the original view must be already properly constrained, the second view that have to be aligned to the original requires width and height provided and also position of the other axis. In this case where Vertical centers are align you will need to provide a X position.
Therefore if you want the views instead be aligned one above the other, align the Horizontal Centers instead and provide the Y position of the views.
You could also do it programmatically. This will always center the image view on the top edge of the view, with half above and half below.
First, make outlets for the UIImageView and for the UIView.
Then:
[imageViewOutlet setCenter:CGPointMake(viewOutlet.frame.size.width/2, viewOutlet.frame.origin.y)]

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Embed the UIImageView and UITextField inside a UIView.
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How to Align Two UI Button Horizontally Aligned in A Xib Using Size Class and Auto Layout

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Height constaint
Width constraint
Leading space with superview
Top space with superview
Then add camera button:
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Equal width with Gallery button
Equal height with Gallery button
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Check this video, to set the constraints
You can check in the preview,
Select both Buttons.
Add the following constraints show in image
This will add default height depend on Text Font.
So if you want to increase height then Select any one button and add extra height constraint. Update the frame.
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Result
This method will result in equal spacing on all size classes.
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1) Use a transparent view which you center horizontally within its containing view. Then pin the left buttons trailing edge to the transparent view and the right buttons leading edge to the center. You have a choice as to how to define their vertical position.
or
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The second is probably easier to execute within storyboard.

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