MBCalendarKit Faulty Frame - ios

I am having a problem with the frame of my CKCalendarView's frame (Which comes with MBCalendarKit).
As you can see from the first and second pictures (and a little bit from the third too), the events are beginning to list way below the calendar. Which does not happen with framework's demo project.
The code I initialize it is as follows:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
calendarView = [CKCalendarView new];
[calendarView setDisplayMode:CKCalendarViewModeDay];
[[self calendarViewArea] addSubview:calendarView];
}
The calendarViewArea is a UIView which starts right below my Navigation Bar. This is because when I add the calendarView directly to my ViewController's view its top part stays below my navigation bar.

I'm the author of MBCalendarKit.
Although the newer versions of MBCalendarKit are better at supporting the larger screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, there's no official iPad support.
Try the new 3.0.4 release, for example. Build it to the iPad simulator. It seems to work well, but if you "rotate" the device, it breaks the cell layout.
I'm unsure if I'll add official support in the future, but it's a known bug and
you should follow issue #31 if you're interested in this feature.

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willRotateToInterfaceOrientation not called on iOS8

I'm using the VFR PDF viewer library in my app, where I present it thus:
ReaderDocument *document = [ReaderDocument withDocumentFilePath:pdfFile password:nil];
ReaderViewController *vc = [[ReaderViewController alloc] initWithReaderDocument:document];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:YES];
If I run on iOS7, everything works fine.
If I run my app on iOS8, the willRotateToInterfaceOrientation method in ReaderViewController never gets called, so when the device is rotated the document doesn't get reformatted correctly.
However, if I run the demo app that comes with the library on iOS8, the willRotateToInterfaceOrientation in ReaderViewController does get called, which leads me to believe the library is ok, and I'm doing something wrong (or neglecting to do something) in my app.
I'm rather puzzled at this behaviour. Why doesn't willRotateToInterfaceOrientation get called in my app on iOS8, but it does under the other variations? How can I try to track this down?
I finally managed to resolve my problem; here is what the issue was in case anyone else has the same problem.
My ReaderViewController was being presented from a class that had implemented viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator:, so the deprecated methods on child view controllers weren't being called.
Also in that implementation it wasn't calling
[super viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator]
and so the viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: method of all child view controllers wasn't being called either.
The fix was to add a call to
[super viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator]
into the parent VC's viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: method, subclass ReaderViewController, then add a viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: to my subclass to call the appropriate methods in ReaderViewController.
Simply because willRotateToInterfaceOrientation is no more called in iOS8, it is deprecated.
If the new rotation methods are not implemented, and a project is
compiled with the iOS 8 SDK, the view controllers -will not receive
calls- to the deprecated rotation methods.
A similar question to yours can be found here
Citation of #mluisbrown :
The rotation methods are deprecated in the iOS 8 SDK. This will have
no effect at all on apps built with the iOS 7 SDK, even running in iOS
8 and probably several future versions of iOS.
I struggled a bit with some kind of a similar problem to yours. I tried following Apple recommendation to use viewWillTransitionToSize, which in my case did not solve my problem because this only gets triggered on changes from regular to compact for example an not on rotation.
viewWillTransitionToSize:withTransitionCoordinator: to make
interface-based adjustments.
Which is detailed in apple documentation
Also a video of WWDC 2014 explains this but I can't remember which video it was. Perhaps the one on What's new in Cocoa touch or the one on View Controller Advancements in iOS 8.
EDIT
Note that in my case viewWillTransitionToSize, as explained, was not called because I wasn't changing from regular to compact so there was no size transition, strictly speaking for Apple.
The only solution I fount was to handle this manually in the viewDidLayoutSubviews of the corresponding view controller.
In my case I wanted to keep track of the top cell displayed in a tableview with autolayout. As it wasn't tracked automatically by the system, I had to check that manually and scroll manually to the adequate cell on rotation. That's why I did it that way. It's quite "heavy" but works in my case.
I would also be interested if anyone has an easier solution.

Indentation of UITableViewCell changes after rotation only on iOS 8

I have an UITableView with three dynamic rows. When displaying the UITableViewController the first time everything works fine. After a rotation the rows which have a data in it get an indentation despite I set setLayoutMargins to zero. I cannot reproduce this issue in another project until now. It is only appearing in iOS 8 but but only on one table. The same source for the table is working in a test project without problems. The only difference here is that it is in a container with some other views.
I checked auto layout constraints, the rotation methods, commented things out - all without success. The change of the indentation occurs between willRotateToInterfaceOrientation and didRotateToInterfaceOrientation or after viewWillTransitionToSize. I even updated to iOS 8.1 with the same results.
Has someone expeerienced a similar behavior?
PS:
What I've also noticed that when setting the layout margins to zero on iOS 8 the animation is not as smooth as it would be with the default values (with indentation). On iOS 7 the animation is always smooth.
EDIT:
I tracked some things down. If a UITableViewController is embedded into an UINavigationController the indentation happens on rotation. If you rotate further it goes back to it's set indentation (no indentation in my case).
If the UITableViewController is embedded into a container (and this container is in a navigation controller) than after the rotation the cell get it's default indentation back. If you rotate further this behavior stays the same (always indented).
Are some events not send to the child view controller or none of you uses a UITableViewController embedded into an UINavigationController?
In my opinion it is a iOS 8 Bug or a Xamarin Bug. Perhaps one other could verify if it is the same with his installation. I'm using Xamarin Studio 5.5.2 with Xcode 6.1.
One ugly solution to this is this:
public override void DidRotate (UIInterfaceOrientation fromInterfaceOrientation)
{
base.DidRotate (fromInterfaceOrientation);
// otherwise cells are indented! iOS 8 Bug?
TableView.ReloadData ();
}
One could use reloadData or reloadSection in didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation, despite it is a deprecated function. But there is no viewDidTransitionToSize and I also have to support iOS 7.
Edit:
Another solution I have come up with is to draw a custom separator line. This only works for iOS 8 and would answer the question (despite I've another issue on iOS 7 where this approach doesn't help).

Views converted to ios7 flow under navigation/bottom bars in ios6

I have an app that uses stroryboards, a navigation controller and autolayout that runs fine under io6 and I would like to enable to run under both ios6 and ios7.
I have converted the app using xcode5 and it now runs fine under ios7, but when I run it under ios 6 the navigation bar and bottom bar are now transparent (they were not originally) and the view flows under them - hiding some of the controls. This persists even if I convert the ios7 app not to flow under these bars (by setting Extend Edges / Under Top Bars and Under Bottom Bars OFF).
I have worked around it by allowing ios7 to flow the view under the bars (what Apple wants us to do anyway) and then adding the following code to the viewDidLoad method of the fist view controller to force ios6 not to use transparent bars.
if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) <= NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1) {
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackOpaque;
self.navigationController.toolbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackOpaque;
}
This seems to be working, but I don't understand why I need to do this and I am concerned that I am missing something fundamental.
Edit: The other concern I have with this 'solution' is that the Preview in xcode5 under ios6 doesn't accurately reflect the layout as it runs under a simulator under ios 6 (I don;t have a real ios6 device handy to test it at the moment). The new preview feature in xcode5 appears to assume that the ios 6 will not flow the view under the top and bottom bars and thus squashes the controls together to fit into the available space.
Ali
Try this regardless of the OS version (it solved me a similar issue recently):
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
self.navigationController.toolbar.translucent = NO;
I am not sure if this will help you, but there is another option to your situation: try using the __IPHONE_6_1 macro. I have an example:
if(__IPHONE_7_0) {
NSLog(#"Hello");
}
so you could just do
if(__IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED <= __IPHONE_6_1) {
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
self.navigationController.toolbar.translucent = NO;
}
hope this helps you

Interface Builder: What are the UIView's Layout iOS 6/7 Deltas for?

I just noticed the iOS 6/7 Delta property found under the UIView's structs layout.
What is this for and why is this missing from AutoLayout?
Note: I noticed this question a while ago, but I'm only posting my answer now because the NDA has been lifted
Why does it not appear for AutoLayout?
As you may have noticed, iOS 7 brings about a whole new look. The look of UI elements have changed, but also so have some of their sizes (or metrics in general). This can make interface design to accommodate both iOS 7 and it's predecessors a bit of a pain.
Apple's official line is to use AutoLayout to solve this; this should take a lot of the hassle out of laying out UI elements for you. Sometimes incorporating this is not easily done, especially if you must still support iOS 5 for business reasons, or your interfaces are managed in a way that makes implementing AutoLayout difficult. As such, Apple seems to have provided a way to make your job a bit easier if you fall into this niche category, and they've called this iOS 6/7 Deltas.
Ok then, what does it do?
Whilst the label in Interface Builder is a bit unclear as to what 'Delta' means in this context, the code contained in the .xib file that corresponds to this feature is a bit more clear:
<inset key="insetFor6xAndEarlier" minX="-50" minY="-100" maxX="-50" maxY="300"/>
The key name insetFor6xAndEarlier explicitly states what this does; you can provide alternative insets for UI elements when run on iOS 7's predecessors. For example, the above defines the following delta change:
x: 50
y: 100
width: -100
height: 200
Whilst the values stored in the .xib doesn't correspond to the quoted values directly, there is a correlation between them.
x: -minX
y: -minY
width: minX + maxX
height: minY + maxY
The images below shows this change visually. It's quite an extreme example, but it's to demonstrate its ability. I would only expect in practice to have delta changes of only a few pixels.
You may notice that the values are the inverse for the iOS 6 view; this is because the deltas are relative to the type of view you're working with. If you're editing for iOS 6, the deltas there are in order to transform the element correctly for iOS 7 (the reverse of the example above).
In order to view the different styles, you can change the way Interface Builder presents it based on the OS it would be running on. This is contained within the File Inspector->Interface Builder Document (1st tab on the right bar), as so:
Does this exist if I like to code my interface by hand?
Not directly, but you can easily achieve the same effect by having conditional checks on OS version within your code, and setting the correct position/size accordingly. The delta ability exists in Interface Builder because there would be no straightforward way to have conditional positioning without having code to do it, and the point of Interface Builder is to get a much code out of the way as possible for UI.
Overall...
Apple strongly recommend that you use AutoLayout, it makes your life easier in most cases. If you can't use it (for reasons mentioned above), deltas provide you with the flexibility to position your UI elements appropriately, based on the current OS's metrics, without the need to manually reposition them in code. A good example is to adjust for the lack of status bar, but there are plenty of other use cases.
Naturally, if you're only developing for iOS7 and above, you don't need to know this feature/won't discover it. Only if you need to have iOS6 devices running your application when built with the iOS7 SDK, without autolayout, do you need deltas.
At the time of writing (21st August), I can't find any documentation regarding this feature, nor any mentions in the WWDC material. I've had a play around, and after a bit of research, that is what I've discovered.
This actually refers to the Delta between layout position from iOS6 to iOS7.
In iOS7, some views can hide the status bar or have it transparent and, in effect, it is overlaid on top of your view. So if you put a UI element at (0.0, 0.0) on iOS6, it will appear below the status bar, but on iOS7 it would appear partially covered underneath the status bar. So in that case you would want a delta that matches the status bar height (20.0 points) so that the layout looks the same in iOS6 and iOS7.
I believe this isn't needed if you use autolayout, but of course, then you lose iPad1 support, which many of us aren't willing to concede at this point in time.
I know this is already been answered, just adding a small variant hoping it could also help those who don't use auto layout and still want to support iOS 6.1 and earlier versions.
Read this Apple's Transition Guide - Supporting earlier version
Choose 'View as' to 'iOS 7.0 and Later'
Base UI for iOS 7. For iOS 6 give suitable delta value. Use preview to see how this will render in iOS 7 and iOS 6 device.
Quick steps:
Select each immediate children of root view individually and add 20px to its 'Y' value.
Then, select all immediate children collectively and give delta Y as -20px. You can also do this in batch or individually.
AutoLayout requires at least iOS 6.0. If you want to support iOS 5.0 you couldn't use AutoLayout.
And those deltas are used to help you adjust the view position on different iOS version(mainly iOS 7 and iOS version lower than 7).
I use those value to help me like this picture.
To see iOS 6/7 Delta in action, I will demo with a SegmentedControl that appears properly on both iOS 6 and iOS 7 devices.
First, select your .Xib or ViewController in Storyboard. Uncheck Use Autolayout and select "View as iOS 7 and later"
In the Interface Builder canvas, place your SegmentedControl so that its origin.y is 20. In iOS 6/7 Delta, choose -20 for DeltaY
This will make your the SegmentedControl laid below the Status Bar in both iOS 6 and iOS 7 devices
Another useful quotes from Developer’s Guide to the iOS 7 Status Bar
Deltas can be set individually for each view and work as you would
expect. If your storyboard or nib is set to view as iOS 6, then
setting the deltas will cause that view to be shifted and/or resized
by the set delta amount when run in iOS 7. Alternately, if your
storyboard or nib is set to view in iOS 7, then the deltas will be
applied when run in iOS 6
If you are using AutoLayout, then Delta is not available.
Try this (tested in iPhone 4s running iOS6):
- (void) viewWillLayoutSubviews {
//iOS 6 workaround offset
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] < 7) {
self.view.clipsToBounds = YES;
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat screenHeight = 0.0;
screenHeight = screenRect.size.width;
CGRect screenFrame = CGRectMake(0, -20, self.view.frame.size.width,self.view.frame.size.height+10);
self.view.frame = screenFrame;
}
}

iOS5: UIScrollView dispaying and scrolling differently from iOS4

This is a curious one.
I have an IBOutlet UIScrollView playScrollView whose height is exactly 1/3 of it's contentSize's height. The app is in landscape. I call this code...
[playScrollView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0.0f, page * PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT,
480.0, PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT)
animated:animated];
... (the int page ranges from 0 to 2) to start on page 1 (displaying the middle third) then go up or down as needed when the user presses buttons.
This works fine for iOS4 both device and simulator, and has been live on the app store for months with no problems. Even iOS5 devices are fine with existing builds, it was only when the app was recompiled for iOS5 that it stopped working correctly on iOS5 devices.
Since updating to XCode 4.2, This doesn't work for iOS5. It goes one page too low, showing the bottom page when it should show the middle. I can get the code to work for iOS5 (device and simulator) by changing page to (page-1)...
[playScrollView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0.0f, (page-1) * PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT,
480.0, PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT)
animated:animated];
...but of course this breaks iOS4, which works fine with the old code, but gets stuck one page too high with this new code. iOS4 and iOS5 are exactly PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT out-of-step (288 pixels, a third of the height of playScrollView). The same thing happens if I use setContentOffset: instead.
One other curious thing, probably the key to this. If I don't do the scrollRectToVisible at all, then iOS4 sits at the top of playScrollView, wheras iOS5 shows the middle third, (ie PLAY_VIEW_PAGE_HEIGHT pixels down).
I could detect the iOS and use different code for each, but that's a horrible kludge. If it's an iOS5 bug and they fix it in a future release, that would break the live app.
Has anyone any ideas, or noticed anything similar? Thanks.

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