How to write Keyboard notifications in Swift 3

Question

I'm trying to update this code to swift 3:

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillShow:"), name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)`

So far, I've just tried the auto corrections given by the compiler. This results in code like this:

let notificationCenter = NotificationCenter.default()
notificationCenter.addObserver(self, selector: Selector(("keyboardWillShow:")), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)

notificationCenter.addObserver(self, selector: Selector(("keyboardWillHide:")), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)`

Unfortunately, that doesn't take me far, resulting in additional errors.

Has anyone solved this please?

Please note that I'm just trying how to write the notifications. I'm not (yet) trying to fix the notification functions.. Thanks

Answer 1

Swift 4.2 Xcode 10 (10L213o)

The main changes compared with Swift 3 are in the UIWindow.keyboardWillShowNotification and UIWindow.keyboardWillHideNotification

let notifier = NotificationCenter.default
notifier.addObserver(self,
                     selector: #selector(KeyboardLayoutConstraint.keyboardWillShowNotification(_:)),
                     name: UIWindow.keyboardWillShowNotification,
                     object: nil)
notifier.addObserver(self,
                     selector: #selector(KeyboardLayoutConstraint.keyboardWillHideNotification(_:)),
                     name: UIWindow.keyboardWillHideNotification,
                     object: nil)


@objc
func keyboardWillShowNotification(_ notification: NSNotification) {}

@objc
func keyboardWillHideNotification(_ notification: NSNotification) {}

Answer 2

You can replace the deprecated string literal Selector with the type-checked #selector(Class.method) pair:

let center = NotificationCenter.default
center.addObserver(self,
                   selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow(_:)),
                   name: .UIKeyboardWillShow,
                   object: nil)

center.addObserver(self,
                   selector: #selector(keyboardWillHide(_:)),
                   name: .UIKeyboardWillHide,
                   object: nil)

The #selector syntax is much safer, since Swift is able to check at compile time that the specified method actually exists.

For more information about Swift selectors, see rickster's detailed answer.

Answer 3

You can perform keyboard notification on both version of Swift respectively.

Add Objserver:

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardDidShow), name: .UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)

Call function swift 3

func keyboardDidShow() {
          print("keyboardDidShow")
       }

Call function In swift 4

@objc func keyboardDidShow() {
      print("keyboardDidShow")
   }

Answer 4

I fixed this issue by writing the code like this

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow), name: .UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)

Answer 5

For Swift 4.2 .UIKeyboardWillShow is renamed to UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification and .UIKeyboardWillHide is renamed to UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification

 NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(NameOfSelector), name: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification , object: nil)
 NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(NameOfSelector), name: UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification , object: nil)

   @objc func NameOfSelector() {
       //Actions when notification is received
    }

Answer 6

In Swift 3.0

 override func viewDidLoad()
    {
        super.viewDidLoad()
 NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.keyboardWillShow), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.keyboardWillHide), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)

}

Keybord Show and Hide

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) 
{

      // Your Code Here
}

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification)
{  
   //Your Code Here     
}