UIWebView content size resetting while come back from background - ios

I am using a UIWebView in my UIViewController.
After web-view finished loading i am programmatically added a UIButton in the bottom of UIWebView with extended ContentSize.
When the app enters background and comes back again, it seems as if the contentSize that i dynamically added was changed to the content size of UIWebView content.
Does anyone have an idea what I am missing here and/or why this happens? Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Gison

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set the webview's hidden property to YES in hopes of killing the re-rendering as the frame is adjusted.
hook up the snapshot to the pan gesture recognizer, and when the gesture ends, give the webview its final frame and set hidden back to NO
at this point, you can remove the snapshot (maybe with an alpha animation) and the webview should only ever have to re-render its content once.
there will probably be a disparity between the snapshot's appearance and the webview's final appearance, but it should be workable.

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I have a UIWebView inside UIScrollView.
This idea is to be able to create more reading space on screen when user scroll the webpage upwards - by scrolling the UIScrollView upwards till the toolbar is visible, and obviously when the toolbars is nomore visible actually scroll the webpage to show more content that's on the page.
IPhone Safari browser does exactly the same functionality.
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Important: You should not embed UIWebView or UITableView objects in
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Idea 2: Don't embed the UIWebView in a UIScrollView, but in a normal UIView. Building on Vignesh's suggestion, listen for your webView's inner scrollView's scrollViewDidScroll: callback via the delegate, checking the contentOffset vs. the contentSize's height each time the callback is called. Once they are equal, it means you got to the bottom. Once this happens you can animate your toolbar's frame to "enter" the containing UIView and "push" the webView's frame away.
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Both variations have the drawback that in some cases you won't be able to do things such as click on links :-( But maybe that's good enough for your case. At least in the first variation it's not so bad.
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if ([subView isKindOfClass:[UIScrollView class]]) {
currentScrollView = (UIScrollView*)subView;
currentScrollView.delegate = (id)self;
}
}
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Advanced ScrollView Techniques
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/

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