Move Fields when Keyboard Appears
When asked to display the keyboard, the system slides it in from the bottom of the screen and positions it over your app’s content. Because it is placed on top of your content, it is possible for the keyboard to be placed on top of the text object that the user wanted to edit. When this happens, you must adjust your content so that the target object remains visible.
Adjusting your content typically involves temporarily resizing one or more views and positioning them so that the text object remains visible. The simplest way to manage text objects with the keyboard is to embed them inside a UIScrollView object (or one of its subclasses like UITableView). When the keyboard is displayed, all you have to do is reset the content area of the scroll view and scroll the desired text object into position. Thus, in response to a UIKeyboardDidShowNotification
, your handler method would do the following:
- Get the size of the keyboard.
- Adjust the bottom content inset of your scroll view by the keyboard height.
- Scroll the target text field into view.
As per apple documentation, here https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/KeyboardManagement/KeyboardManagement.html you need to scroll your view only when the current editing should be under the keyboard. You only need to put your needed controls in a scrollViiew.
Swift 2.3
//Declare a variable
var activeField: UITextField?
//Register keyboard for notification
func registerForKeyboardNotifications()
{
//Adding notifies on keyboard appearing
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWasShown:", name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillBeHidden:", name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
func deregisterFromKeyboardNotifications()
{
//Removing notifies on keyboard appearing
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}
func keyboardWasShown(notification: NSNotification)
{
//Need to calculate keyboard exact size due to Apple suggestions
self.scrollView.scrollEnabled = true
var info : NSDictionary = notification.userInfo!
var keyboardSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue().size
var contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, keyboardSize!.height, 0.0)
self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
var aRect : CGRect = self.view.frame
aRect.size.height -= keyboardSize!.height
if let activeFieldPresent = activeField
{
if (!CGRectContainsPoint(aRect, activeField!.frame.origin))
{
self.scrollView.scrollRectToVisible(activeField!.frame, animated: true)
}
}
}
func keyboardWillBeHidden(notification: NSNotification)
{
//Once keyboard disappears, restore original positions
var info : NSDictionary = notification.userInfo!
var keyboardSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue().size
var contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, -keyboardSize!.height, 0.0)
self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
self.view.endEditing(true)
self.scrollView.scrollEnabled = false
}
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField!)
{
activeField = textField
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField!)
{
activeField = nil
}
Be sure to declare your ViewController as `UITextFieldDelegate` and set correct delegates in your initialization methods:
`self.you_text_field.delegate = self`
And remember to call `registerForKeyboardNotifications` on viewInit and `deregisterFromKeyboardNotifications ` on exit.
Swift 3.0
func registerForKeyboardNotifications(){
//Adding notifies on keyboard appearing
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWasShown(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillBeHidden(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)
}
func deregisterFromKeyboardNotifications(){
//Removing notifies on keyboard appearing
NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)
}
func keyboardWasShown(notification: NSNotification){
//Need to calculate keyboard exact size due to Apple suggestions
self.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true
var info = notification.userInfo!
let keyboardSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue.size
let contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, keyboardSize!.height, 0.0)
self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
var aRect : CGRect = self.view.frame
aRect.size.height -= keyboardSize!.height
if let activeField = self.activeField {
if (!aRect.contains(activeField.frame.origin)){
self.scrollView.scrollRectToVisible(activeField.frame, animated: true)
}
}
}
func keyboardWillBeHidden(notification: NSNotification){
//Once keyboard disappears, restore original positions
var info = notification.userInfo!
let keyboardSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue.size
let contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, -keyboardSize!.height, 0.0)
self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
self.view.endEditing(true)
self.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = false
}
func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField){
activeField = textField
}
func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField){
activeField = nil
}