iOS bottom align a TableView in TableViewController (StoryBoard) - ios

Is it possible to bottom align a UITableView when using the base UITableViewController? I want to do this for a Modal with a Partial Curl transition.

If you are using a UITableViewController, it automatically makes the tableview full screen, and that can't be changed.
However, if you don't need a UITableViewController, you can do this with a standard UIViewController and just set the size of the UITableView (in the storyboard, or in code as appropriate).

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IOS8 UiTableViewController grouped tableView like iOS6 style wrong left right margin

i found this guide for make grouped table view with iOS6 style:
ios7 grouped rounded tableview but if i apply this code in UITableViewController i have a wrong lateral margins to view for my cells.
i need use UiTableViewController instead of UiViewController with TableView for using refresh table, for automatic scroll cell with textfield when keyboard appears and more...
any idea?
this is my result:
but I would like to get this:
Why not embed your UITableViewController into another UIViewController, as a child view controller?
You will be able to easily change the margins of your container view.

Adding a fixed-position view on top of a view

I have a UITableViewController inside a UINavigationController. I'm adding a "modal" subview to the tableView, which is a custom UIView when one of the rows is selected.
(It’s modal in spirit, not in the UIKit sense, since Apple doesn’t support modal views on iPhone, I’m adding it with a [self.view addSubview:customView] in my table view’s controller.)
I would like it to appear at the bottom of the screen and stay put there. I can get it to draw at the bottom, but once I scroll the table view, the view moves with it. Here are some illustrations:
Initial position (good):
Position after scrolling (bad):
I'm getting the bottom position by subtracting the height of all the chrome (navigation bar and status bar) as well as the height of the custom view from [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.
How can I get the custom view to stay put? Should I constantly be adjusting its frame when the table view is being scrolled?
Your best and most flexible option is to switch to using a view controller with the table view as a subview so that you can change its frame and add sibling views. Then, when you want to add a modal you can run an animation to move the table view out of the way and slide the modal view in.
UITableViewController.view is an instance of UITableView. Means you added your custom view into a scroll view and that is why it scrolls. You can try to put your custom view into the tableFooterView property of the UITableView, which is the old school solution.
Personally I would create a container UIViewController and have UITableViewController be a sub viewController of it. Another sub viewController UIViewController or just a simple UIView could represent the footer.

Adding subview to UITableViewController that covers only the bottom half of the view

I'd like to achieve the following look, when clicking on the email envelope button a UIViewController that has custom size to fit width of screen and half the height of screen will "fly up" from button and cover some rows until it's closed.
so if this is the UITableView
after click on email envelope it will look like this
Try to use a simple UIViewController which adopts UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate for your custom UITableView instead of the build in UITableViewController. So you have a simple UIView as main view container (not a UITableView). On this UIView you can add any view you want, including an animated View which is drawn above your table.

UITableViewController, Storyboards and UIKeyboard

I am trying to create a UI just like Facebook's comment screen on mobile.
I got a UITableViewController on my storyboard. I need to insert a view docked to the bottom of the screen to place a text field. Since the tableview is taking the full screen, I can't do it on storyboard and I think I need to do it programmatically but how? Should I modify the constraints that stretch the tableview to the edges and insert the views or what?
Thanks.
You can always add table view to normal UIViewController and below it add another view.

keep keyboard from hiding UITextField at bottom of UITableView

According to the answer at UITableView, make footer stay at bottom of screen?, which I verify:
In order to have a footer that stays put at the bottom of the screen,
and doesn't scroll with the table, then you can't use a table view
footer. You can't even use a UITableViewController, you'll need to
implement your view controller as a UIViewController. Then you add
your own table view as a subview. You'll also need to add your footer
as a subview of the view controller's view, not the table view. Make
sure you size the table view so its bottom is at the top of the footer
view.
but the problem is that my UITextField, inside my footer, is being hidden by the keyboard when user tries to type. So how do I keep the keyboard from hiding the UITextField? Throughout the app, I have been using TPKeyboardAvoiding. But in this case, where a UIScrollView/TPKeyboardAvoidingScrollView contains a UITableView and a UIView in vertical order, it does not work. I generally like TPKeyboardAvoiding because it’s so quick and easy. Any ideas how I might fix this issue?
The instruction that you quote is telling you to use a UIViewController, add a UITableView as a subview, then add a UITextField as a subview of the UIViewController NOT as a subview of the UITableView.
Let me draw it out for you:
Step 1:
Add a UITableView to your view controller
Step 2:
Add your UITextField subview (you can embed the UITextField in a UIView container if you like) as a subview of your UIViewController's view NOT your UITableView footer.
Step 3:
If depending on if your using frames or autolayout, you adjust the frame or autolayout constraint constant values for your UITextField subview when user tap on the text field.
Step 4:
Finally, the keyboard appears and the UITextField doesn't get obscured by the keyboard.
Just make sure your UITableView doesn't initialize it's own automatic scrolling for keyboard appearing. If you use UITableViewController then just subclass it and make sure you don't call it's viewWillAppear:. I didn't investigate which exactly method you should block without using UITableViewController, so, you should find out this yourself or somebody else would help.
I did similar in my own project where I wanted to have own scrolling of table view for keyboard appearing.

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