(Swift) Moving views out of the way for keyboard? - ios

I am having a weird problem with moving my views to make room for an incoming keyboard. Basically, in my app, there is a button that performs a segue which pushes a new instance of a view controller that is embedded inside of a navigation controller modally. Within this first instance, my keyboard code works perfectly. The code is as follows:
func keyboardWillShow(sender: NSNotification) {
if !keyBoard {
self.view.frame.origin.y -= 200
}
keyBoard = true
}
func keyboardWillHide(sender: NSNotification) {
if keyBoard {
self.view.frame.origin.y += 200
}
keyBoard = false
}
with the following in viewDidLoad:
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillShow:"), name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
I also added a tapGestureRecognizer so that when the keyboard is showing and the user taps anywhere on the screen, the keyboard closes:
let tapped = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "closeKeyboard")
tapped.numberOfTapsRequired = 1
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapped)
and
func closeKeyboard() {
self.view.endEditing(true)
}
So in the first instance, this code works perfectly. However, after I go back, calling self.dismissViewControllerAnimated, and, once I am on the original screen, click the button that calls performSegue again and push a new instance of this same view controller, the code breaks and the view no longer moves out of the way of the keyboard but just sort of stutters and bounces a little. I have no idea why this is happening and any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Try putting a breakpoint on keyboardWillShow and keyboardWillHide, and tell me if both the methods are called when you go back to the second ViewController.

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get {
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}
}
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Also, when the keyboard is up, then disappears when I tap the outside, KeyboardWillDisappear function gets called, but KeyBoardWillShow function gets called right after.
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override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
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NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillHide), name: UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
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So basically, I get the log "Notification: Keyboard will show", when the keyboard isn't showing and only the accessory view. Any ideas?
The problem is that you are throwing away important information in the UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey. It is not enough just to look at the keyboard's height. You need to look at where the keyboard will be — look at its entire frame information. If the top of the keyboard is not going to be above the bottom of the screen, clearly you should not be doing anything. Similarly, if the keyboard frame is not going to be changing from where it was, you should not be doing anything.
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How to make a UIButton always stay above the keyboard [duplicate]

When a user taps on a button, I'd like the keyboard to pop up (which is easy), but I want a view that goes up along with it (sticking to the top of the keyboard). This view will be have a "send a message.." textfield. When the user pushes done, I want the keyboard to go away along with the view.
How do I make this view "stick" to the keyboard?
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- Apple Documentation
- Relevant Stack Overflow Answer
This will pin whatever view you assign as that textfield's inputAccessoryView to the top of the keyboard.
Something important from the answer in that link to remember:
Note that the view you use should neither be in the view hierarchy elsewhere, nor should you add it to some superview, this is done for you.
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//this is will tell if the keyboard hidden or not
func addKeyboardNotifications() {
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NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
// MARK:- Notification
func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
print("keyboard is up")
}
func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
print("keyboard is down")
}
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super.viewDidLoad()
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- Apple Documentation
- Relevant Stack Overflow Answer
This will pin whatever view you assign as that textfield's inputAccessoryView to the top of the keyboard.
Something important from the answer in that link to remember:
Note that the view you use should neither be in the view hierarchy elsewhere, nor should you add it to some superview, this is done for you.
go to your storyboard and add a view(lets call it topKeyboardView) at the bottom of your viewController. and give it the following constraints:
bottom space to bottom layout = 0
and then add the textfield*(i prefer using textView to make it change its height when the message gets too long...)*
and your button(send) on top of topKeyboardView.
lets code now..
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//this is will tell if the keyboard hidden or not
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NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
// MARK:- Notification
func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
print("keyboard is up")
}
func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
print("keyboard is down")
}
in your viewDidLoad call the function:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
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}
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Keyboard size changed event in swift?

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override public func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillShow:", name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillHide:", name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
But with the new keyboards in iOS8 the keyboard is able to change without dismissing the keyboard and I was wondering how to call a function on keyboard size change. Anyone know? Thanks.
Edit: It is now calling on frame change but using this code:
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NSLog("\(keyboardSize.height)")
}
It returns the old keyboard height for example when the frame changes to "224.0" it returns "253.0" as if the height has not updated by time the code is called, and when it goes have to "253.0" it returns the old height again which is "224.0"
Edit 2:
Instead of using "UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey", I used "UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey" and it is now working.
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