I have a UIView where I added a UICollectionView. Now this view is shown on app start up. At the same time I'm scrolling to a certain position in my collection view. Therefore I use scrollToItemAtIndexPath. The problem now is that it scrolls to a wrong position, because the collection view has the wrong size at the beginning: If you start the iPad in the landscape orientation on iOS 7 the collection view always takes 768 as width despite it is in landscape.
How can I scroll to a certain position without the user noticing it? Where in the view hierarchy can I call it?
viewWillAppear: frames have not been set
viewDidAppear: not possible without the user noticing it
layoutSubviews: this is called multiple times and I only need it at startup and when the user presses a button
I also tried to use layoutIfNeeded, but that doesn't help for my edge case (iOS 7, iPad, landscape at startup).
Constraints kick around the time viewDidAppear and layoutSubviews is called for the last time. By that time it's too late.
You can try inheriting your own class from UICollectionView and see if its layoutSubviews has correct constraints and call scrollToIndex from there.
If that fails, you can cheat by setting frame sizes in viewDidLoad and calling scroll to index. ( This one is a tad bit more complicated) –
The problem
In a custom view of mine (a UIScrollView subclass) I am calling setNeedsLayout in response to a "reload data" event (triggered by an external source). Most of the time this works correctly and layoutSubviews is called when the next view layout cycle occurs. Sometimes, however, layoutSubviews is not called! Up until now I was living with the "certain knowledge" that setNeedsLayout always triggers layoutSubviews. Apparently I was wrong. I even tried calling layoutIfNeeded after setNeedsLayout, but still no success.
The question
Obviously, I would like to solve my particular problem. On the other hand, I would like to improve my understanding of the view layout process on iOS, so I am formulating my question in a general way: Do you know of any conditions that can prevent layoutSubviews from being called after setNeedsLayout has been called? Answers that focus on UIScrollView are quite welcome, since that is where I am having trouble.
Problem context
I am on iOS 7.1, using Xcode 5.1.1. Notes on the implementation of my custom scroll view:
The scroll view has a single container view of type UIView that is always the same size as the scroll view content size
The scroll view's layoutSubviews implementation places custom subviews into the container view by manually calculating the subviews' frames
The custom subviews' implementation uses Auto Layout
Here is how the reloadData implementation looks like:
- (void) reloadData
{
// Iterates through an internal array that holds the subviews,
// then empties the array. Subviews are deallocated at this
// point.
[self removeAllSubviewsFromContainerview];
self.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, 0);
// I verified that the content size is always greater than
// CGSizeZero (both width and height)
CGFloat contentWidth = [self calculateNewContentWidth];
self.contentSize = CGSizeMake(contentWidth, self.frame.size.height);
// Here is the problem: Sometimes this triggers layoutSubviews,
// sometimes it does not.
[self setNeedsLayout];
// Adding the following line for debugging purposes does not
// help, making it clear that setNeedsLayout has no effect.
// [self layoutIfNeeded];
}
Last but not least, here are some observations I made:
layoutSubviews is called as expected if the content offset or content size change. layoutSubviews is not called in my particular case if these two values don't change. I first assumed that this observation is a general working principle of UIScrollView, i.e. that layoutSubviews is generally not called for UIScrollView unless content offset or content size change. However, when I wrote a couple of minimal projects I failed to reproduce this assumed "general" behaviour - in those projects layoutSubviews was always called as expected, regardless of whether content offset or content size changed or not.
layoutSubviews is always called as expected if the scroll view displays dummy UILabel instances instead of my own custom subviews
layoutSubviews is always called as expected if I use my own custom subviews, but replace Auto Layout in the custom subviews' implementation by manual frame calculations
The last two observations have led me to believe that Auto Layout is somehow involved, but I really have no idea how this could affect how setNeedsLayout works.
I am adding some subviews to my view controller's root view in the viewDidLoad method. Soon after, when a particular event occurs, I am simply changing the background color on one of the views. This change isn't visible until the subviews are laid out again (willLayoutSubviews gets called) This happens either if I change the orientation of the device or wait 10-20 seconds. I am calling setNeedsDisplay on the subview right after making the change, but it is not helping.
To summarize, I'm simply trying to change the background color of a subview after a certain event occurs, and I'd like the changes to be visible on screen within maybe a second or so. What am I missing?
Note: In case it matters, the superview of the view in question is a GLKView.
Make sure you are only making UI updates from the main thread. You can fix this by using performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone: or dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{/* your UI modifying code here */});.
I am creating a UIscroll view with 8 pages. Each page is another view controller class with some functionality which is added to this scrollview.
On loading the app, when I scroll the screens from one page to another,the app just works fine.
But when I rotate the ipad to a different interface orientation, the UIScrollView delegate method - ScrollViewDidScroll is called upon and the current screen(page) is scrolled to the previous screen. Debugging makes me reckon that the scrolling function is called simultaneously with the device rotation.
How to stop/prevent the 'ScrollViewDidScroll' delegate method to be called on rotation so that only the rotation functionality is performed (i.e. the screen shouldn't be moved to previous one)?
I have tried different solutions provided but with little help
I am fairly new to xcode development.
Instead of using scrollViewDidScroll method to set the current page, you can use the scrollViewDidEndDecelerating method which is not called on rotation.
With this, you just have to set right contentOffset after the rotation, based on the current page.
I have a custom view that's not getting layoutSubview messages during animation.
I have a view that fills the screen. It has a custom subview at the bottom of the screen that correctly resizes in Interface Builder if I change the height of the nav bar. layoutSubviews is called when the view is created, but never again. My subviews are correctly laid out. If I toggle the in-call status bar off, the subview's layoutSubviews is not called at all, even though the main view does animate its resize.
Under what circumstances is layoutSubviews actually called?
I have autoresizesSubviews set to NO for my custom view. And in Interface Builder I have the top and bottom struts and the vertical arrow set.
Another part of the puzzle is that the window must be made key:
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
of else the subviews are not automatically resized.
I had a similar question, but wasn't satisfied with the answer (or any I could find on the net), so I tried it in practice and here is what I got:
init does not cause layoutSubviews to
be called (duh)
addSubview: causes
layoutSubviews to be called on the
view being added, the view it’s being
added to (target view), and all the
subviews of the target
view setFrame
intelligently calls layoutSubviews on
the view having its frame set only
if the size parameter of the frame is
different
scrolling a UIScrollView
causes layoutSubviews to be called on
the scrollView, and its superview
rotating a device only calls
layoutSubview on the parent view (the
responding viewControllers primary
view)
Resizing a view will call layoutSubviews on its superview (Important: views with an intrinsic content size will re-size if the content that determines their size changes; for example, updating the text on a UILabel will cause the intrinsic content size to be updated and thus call layoutSubviews on its superview)
My results - http://blog.logichigh.com/2011/03/16/when-does-layoutsubviews-get-called/
Building on the previous answer by #BadPirate, I experimented a bit further and came up with some clarifications/corrections. I found that layoutSubviews: will be called on a view if and only if:
Its own bounds (not frame) changed.
The bounds of one of its direct subviews changed.
A subview is added to the view or removed from the view.
Some relevant details:
The bounds are considered changed only if the new value is different, including a different origin. Note specifically that is why layoutSubviews: is called whenever a UIScrollView scrolls, as it performs the scrolling by changing its bounds' origin.
Changing the frame will only change the bounds if the size has changed, as this is the only thing propagated to the bounds property.
A change in bounds of a view that is not yet in a view hierarchy will result in a call to layoutSubviews: when the view is eventually added to a view hierarchy.
And just for completeness: these triggers do not directly call layoutSubviews, but rather call setNeedsLayout, which sets/raises a flag. Each iteration of the run loop, for all views in the view hierarchy, this flag is checked. For each view where the flag is found raised, layoutSubviews: is called on it and the flag is reset. Views higher up the hierarchy will be checked/called first.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/documentation/WindowsViews/Conceptual/ViewPG_iPhoneOS/CreatingViews/CreatingViews.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009503-CH5-SW1
Layout changes can occur whenever any of the following events happens
in a view:
a. The size of a view’s bounds rectangle changes.
b. An interface orientation change occurs, which usually triggers a change in the root view’s bounds rectangle.
c. The set of Core Animation sublayers associated with the view’s layer changes and requires layout.
d. Your application forces layout to occur by calling the setNeedsLayout or layoutIfNeeded method of a view.
e. Your application forces layout by calling the setNeedsLayout method of the view’s underlying layer object.
Some of the points in BadPirate's answer are only partially true:
For addSubView point
addSubview causes layoutSubviews to be called on the view being added, the view it’s being added to (target view), and all the subviews of the target.
It depends on the view's (target view) autoresize mask. If it has autoresize mask ON, layoutSubview will be called on each addSubview. If it has no autoresize mask then layoutSubview will be called only when the view's (target View) frame size changes.
Example: if you created UIView programmatically (it has no autoresize mask by default), LayoutSubview will be called only when UIView frame changes not on every addSubview.
It is through this technique that the performance of the application also increases.
For the device rotation point
Rotating a device only calls layoutSubview on the parent view (the responding viewController's primary view)
This can be true only when your VC is in the VC hierarchy (root at window.rootViewController), well this is most common case. In iOS 5, if you create a VC, but it is not added into any another VC, then this VC would not get any noticed when device rotate. Therefore its view would not get noticed by calling layoutSubviews.
I tracked the solution down to Interface Builder's insistence that springs cannot be changed on a view that has the simulated screen elements turned on (status bar, etc.). Since the springs were off for the main view, that view could not change size and hence was scrolled down in its entirety when the in-call bar appeared.
Turning the simulated features off, then resizing the view and setting the springs correctly caused the animation to occur and my method to be called.
An extra problem in debugging this is that the simulator quits the app when the in-call status is toggled via the menu. Quit app = no debugger.
calling
[self.view setNeedsLayout];
in viewController makes it to call viewDidLayoutSubviews
have you looked at layoutIfNeeded?
The documentation snippet is below. Does the animation work if you call this method explicitly during the animation?
layoutIfNeeded
Lays out the subviews if needed.
- (void)layoutIfNeeded
Discussion
Use this method to force the layout of subviews before drawing.
Availability
Available in iPhone OS 2.0 and later.
When migrating an OpenGL app from SDK 3 to 4, layoutSubviews was not called anymore. After a lot of trial and error I finally opened MainWindow.xib, selected the Window object, in the inspector chose Window Attributes tab (leftmost) and checked "Visible at launch". It seems that in SDK 3 it still used to cause a layoutSubViews call, but not in 4.
6 hours of frustration put to an end.