The way I've solved this issue is to subclass UITableView
. Here's what I've done:
// AOTableView.h file
typedef enum
{
AOKeyboardStateUnknown = 0,
AOKeyboardStateShowing,
AOKeyboardStateHidden
} AOKeyboardState;
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "AOKeyboardState.h"
@interface AOTableView : UITableView
@property (nonatomic) BOOL observeKeyboardNotifications;
@property (nonatomic) AOKeyboardState keyboardState;
@end
// AOTableView.m file
#import "AOTableView.h"
@interface AOTableView(Private)
@property (nonatomic) CGRect frame0;
- (void)setup;
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification;
- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification;
@end
@implementation AOTableView
#pragma mark - Object lifecycle
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
[self setup];
}
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self)
{
[self setup];
}
return self;
}
- (void)setup
{
self.contentSize = self.frame.size;
self.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
_keyboardState = AOKeyboardStateUnknown;
_frame0 = self.frame;
_observeKeyboardNotifications = NO;
}
- (void)dealloc
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}
#pragma mark - Custom setters
- (void)setObserveKeyboardNotifications:(BOOL)observeKeyboardNotifications
{
if (_observeKeyboardNotifications == observeKeyboardNotifications)
return;
_observeKeyboardNotifications = observeKeyboardNotifications;
if (_observeKeyboardNotifications)
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}
else
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}
}
#pragma mark - UIKeyboard Notifications
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{
if (self.keyboardState == AOKeyboardStateShowing)
return;
self.frame0 = self.frame;
self.keyboardState = AOKeyboardStateShowing;
NSDictionary* info = [notification userInfo];
CGRect keyboardFrame = CGRectZero;
[[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue:&keyboardFrame];
CGRect frame = self.frame0;
frame.size.height = CGRectGetMinY(keyboardFrame) - CGRectGetMinY(frame);
self.frame = frame;
[self scrollToRowAtIndexPath:self.indexPathForSelectedRow atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle animated:YES];
[self deselectRowAtIndexPath:self.indexPathForSelectedRow animated:NO];
}
- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification
{
if (self.keyboardState == AOKeyboardStateHidden)
return;
self.keyboardState = AOKeyboardStateHidden;
self.frame = self.frame0;
}
@end
After creation (or loading the view from an IBOutlet), you call this method to tell the class to start listening for keyboard notifications:
[tableViewInstance setObserveKeyboardNotifications:YES];
Whenever a user clicks on a cell, it becomes the self.indexPathForSelectedRow
cell... so its scrolled to by the AOTableView
instance automatically.
For this to work, though, I've had to turn off userInteraction
on the UITextField
within the cell (otherwise, the device can get confused about if the user is clicking on the cell or on the text field). Instead, when a user selects a cell that has a text field, I tell the text field to the become first responder, like this:
[cell.textField becomeFirstResponder];
I hope this helps.