Resize UItextview according to it's content in

Question

I'm trying to resize a text view according to content & also it's sibling and parent container.

Below code is working fine in iOS 6

   if (/* less than ios 7 */) {
        CGRect frame = _textView.frame;
        CGSize conSize = _textView.contentSize;
        CGFloat difference = conSize.height - frame.size.height;

        frame.size.height += difference;
        _textView.frame = frame;

        UIScrollView *parentView = (UIScrollView *)_textView.superview;
        // adjust views residing below this text view.

        // sibling view
        UIView *belowView = // access it somehow
        CGRect frame1 = belowView.frame;

        frame1.origin.y += difference;
        belowView.frame = frame1;
        // adjust parent scroll view, increase height.
        CGSize frame3 = parentView.contentSize;

        frame3.height += difference;
        parentView.contentSize = frame3;
    } else {
       // tried
       [_textView sizeToFit]; 
       [_textView layoutIfNeeded];
       [parentView sizeToFit]; 
       [parentView layoutIfNeeded];
    }

Tried to follow iOS 7 solution from: How do I size a UITextView to its content on iOS 7?

but not working.

Any pointers?

Working code solution from @NSBouzouki

if (/* ios 7 */) {
             [_textView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:_textView.textContainer];
            [_textView layoutIfNeeded];
}
            CGRect frame = _textView.frame;
            CGSize conSize = _textView.contentSize;
            CGFloat difference = conSize.height - frame.size.height;

            frame.size.height += difference;
            _textView.frame = frame;

            UIScrollView *parentView = (UIScrollView *)_textView.superview;
            // adjust views residing below this text view.

            // sibling view
            UIView *belowView = // access it somehow
            CGRect frame1 = belowView.frame;

            frame1.origin.y += difference;
            belowView.frame = frame1;
            // adjust parent scroll view, increase height.
            CGSize frame3 = parentView.contentSize;

            frame3.height += difference;
            parentView.contentSize = frame3;

Answer 1

It seems UITextView's contentSize property is not correctly set in iOS 7 till viewDidAppear:. This is probably because NSLayoutManager lays out the text lazily and the entire text must be laid out for contentSize to be correct. The ensureLayoutForTextContainer: method forces layout of the provided text container after which usedRectForTextContainer: can be used for getting the bounds. In order to get total width and height correctly, textContainerInset property must be taken into account. The following method worked for me.

 - (CGRect)contentSizeRectForTextView:(UITextView *)textView
    {
        [textView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:textView.textContainer];
        CGRect textBounds = [textView.layoutManager usedRectForTextContainer:textView.textContainer];
        CGFloat width =  (CGFloat)ceil(textBounds.size.width + textView.textContainerInset.left + textView.textContainerInset.right);
        CGFloat height = (CGFloat)ceil(textBounds.size.height + textView.textContainerInset.top + textView.textContainerInset.bottom);
        return CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height);
    }

Additionally, it seems UITextView's setContentSize: method is called from layoutSubviews. So, calling layoutIfNeeded on a textView (which itself calls layoutSubviews) after calling ensureLayoutForTextContainer: on its layoutManager, should make the textView's contentSize correct.

[someTextView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:someTextView.textContainer];
[someTextView layoutIfNeeded]; 
// someTextView.contentSize should now have correct value

Answer 2

GrowingTextViewHandler is an NSObject subclass which resizes text view as user types text. Here is how you can use it.

 @interface ViewController ()<UITextViewDelegate>

 @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *textView;
 @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *heightConstraint;
 @property (strong, nonatomic) GrowingTextViewHandler *handler;

 @end

 @implementation ViewController

 - (void)viewDidLoad {
   [super viewDidLoad];
   self.handler = [[GrowingTextViewHandler alloc]initWithTextView:self.textView withHeightConstraint:self.heightConstraint];
   [self.handler updateMinimumNumberOfLines:3 andMaximumNumberOfLine:8];
}

 - (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView {
   [self.handler resizeTextViewWithAnimation:YES];
}
@end