Intro: Hi, I'm working on a "News" app, that uses a news API online. I want to display the content of the latest news in a TableView (Currently I want to display the title of the news item, the name of the organization that posted it (e.g: the BBC), and an image that I load from a given link). I dragged a table view in the Main storyboard, created a custom cell for a singular news item, and get all of the required information from the internet.
The Problem:
When all the data gets loaded into the TableView, the image streches across the whole rows height.
I'm trying to find a work-around for hours now. At the moment, In the prototype cell, I have a Stack View, that contains 2 labels and an ImageView, with a Vertical Axis, and a Distribution of Fill Equally.
There are no constraints on the Views inside the Stack View (the 2 labels and ImageView), and I'm not editing any constraints within the code, to keep it as simple as possible.
I also tried the constraints approach prior of using the stack view, but it gave the same result.
Image Of The Stack View
The Result in the Simulator (Rows without an image, don't have an image url provided by the api, so I just skip them).
I tried being as expressive as I can about the problem, if you are still missing some information please let me know
The problem you are encountering is due to constraint issue. The problem should be solved by unstacking the view and put constraints instead.
You can still achieve scalable application using them.
If you are confused with how to do it, refer https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/WorkingwithConstraintsinInterfaceBuidler.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/AnatomyofaConstraint.html
These should help.
I think you are in right Direction.
if you want static(fixed) Layout Follow below step.
change StackView Distribution from Fill equally to Fill
Apply StackView(leading,trailing,top,bottm) =
cell(leading,trailing,top,bottm)
set tableView rowHeight to 300 or whatever you want
if you want dynamic layout follow below step
https://www.raywenderlich.com/1067-self-sizing-table-view-cells
I am new in iOS development and Swift, I'm struggling creating a relatively simple detail page.
For now I have this layout made with interface builder:
The parts highlighted in red must have variable heights, every element is inside one big stack view which is inside a big scroll view.
The list of phone numbers is a label with Lines set at 0 so if I understood correctly that element will size itself correctly with the content.
I don't know how to implement the other two lists and how to make the whole layout to wrap onto the content.
To make you understand better I'm struggling because I'm used to make layouts in android and so making extensive use of the wrap_content option.
Thanks in advance
I think, you could use UITableView for image+text list and UICollectionView for images. If you are using constraints you have to add height constraints to your tableView and collectionView, but you could update those constraints from code with real heights.
I'm working on an app that includes the names of users with their icons under an image. I'm currently using collection view in order to distribute the names. I'm using this approach since each cell when clicked will be holding the user object. However, I'm having some layout issues when it's used (please check attached image). The spacing is unusual. The desired output is the cells having a certain spacing limit between them and if any cell cannot fit, will be placed on the other line. I tried using the delegate methods for spacing by setting it to 5 however it's not working (the cell's size will be dynamic). Should I subclass and create my own Collection view Layout ? if there is any other approach without using collection views please let me know. Thank you.
I want to combine text and images in a view (not using UIWebView) and I want to make the content appear according to the width of the inner view predefined by me. If it's content overflows the content size of that inner view, I want it to overflow to the next view (column right next to the previous one).
Summary: I want to combine both text and images like a newspaper page; fixed width columns all next to each other.
I am trying to create a custom UIScrollView but it becomes more complex in every step and I don't feel safe about this method.
I am using RichTextBlock component in Windows 8 where I can easily add Text or Image objects. I hope to find a similar component but I still haven't.
Are there any other easier methods or ready-to-use libraries made for a similar thing?
I am trying to repduce a similar sort of layout as in the screenshot below from the Digg app..
Notice that each list entry has a title in bold followed by the source, posted time and finally if there is enough space the start of the description line.
The question is what is the best way to achieve this in iOS? With some posts having longer titles than others I cannot simply say that the title label is 40px high and then place the Source label at 45 as the title will sometimes be longer and sometimes shorter.
Do I have to calculate the height of the label based on its contents before arranging the layout or is there some better way of doing this in iOS so that the views 'below' are automatically moved down?
Another alternative would be some sort of rich text label that I could add all the text to and have it automatically wrap round moving the later text down but I cannot find any sort of control in standard iOS / Xamarin (MonoTouch).
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated?
If you are using a storyboard the simplest way to achieve this result is to define different prototype cells. For example, you could define four different prototype cells, each one with a different layout like those shown in the example picture you provided. You can dequeue the appropriate cell based on the content you want to display so there is no need to adjust the layout in the code.
If you are doing everything in code, it's a lot more complicated since you have to build your own "layout engine" to adjust size and position of the views in your cell. You can have a look at XibFree or use MonoTouch.Dialog as suggested in the comments.