Move view with keyboard using Swift

Question

I have an app that has a text field on the lower half of the view. This means that when I go to type in the text field the keyboard covers the textfield.

How would I go about moving the view upwards while typing so I can see what i'm typing and then moving it back down to its original place when the keyboard disappears?

I've looked everywhere but all the solutions appear to be in Obj-C which I can't quite convert just yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I see all answers are moving the view itself by the value of the keyboard height. Well, I have an elaborate answer, which could be useful if you are using constraints i.e autolayout, that moves a view by changing its constraint value (bottom or top constraints for example) by a predefined value or you can use keyboard size value.

In this example, I use bottom constraint from the textfield to Bottom Layout View with initial value of 175.

@IBOutlet weak var bottomConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()        
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillShow:"), name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil);
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil);
}

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    //To retrieve keyboard size, uncomment following line
    //let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue()
    bottomConstraint.constant = 260
    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.3) {
        self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
    }
}

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
    //To retrieve keyboard size, uncomment following line
    //let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue()
    bottomConstraint.constant = 175
    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.3) {
        self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
    }
}

Answer 2

My two cents for beginners: in above samples someone changes coordinates, other uses "autoresizing mask", and other constraints:

As Apple says, do not mix these 3 types of logic. If You have constraints in Storyboard, do not try to change x/y. It definitively not work.

Answer 3

If you have 2 or more text fields on the same VC, and the user taps on one of them and then taps on the other one, without calling the function keyboardWillHide, the view is going upwards one more time, which is not necessary, because you'll have the keyboard, a blank space which has the height of the keyboard, and then the view, using the code in the answer I edited:

override func viewDidLoad() {       
    super.viewDidLoad()
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillShow:"), name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: Selector("keyboardWillHide:"), name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue() {
        self.view.frame.origin.y -= keyboardSize.height
    }
}

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue() {
        self.view.frame.origin.y += keyboardSize.height
    }
}

To solve this, replace the two functions "KeyboardWillShow/Hide" to these:

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
 if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue() {
    if view.frame.origin.y == 0{
        self.view.frame.origin.y -= keyboardSize.height
        }
    }
}

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue() {
        if view.frame.origin.y != 0 {
            self.view.frame.origin.y += keyboardSize.height
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

 override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool)
 {
 super.viewWillAppear(animated)

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

 }

 // MARK: - keyboard
 func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) 
{

if let userInfo = notification.userInfo {
if let keyboardSize = (userInfo[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.CGRectValue() {
let contentInsets = self.tblView.contentInset as UIEdgeInsets
self.tblView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: contentInsets.top, left: contentInsets.left, bottom: keyboardSize.height, right:contentInsets.right)
                    // ...
                } else {
                    // no UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey entry in userInfo
                }
            } else {
                // no userInfo dictionary in notification
            }
        }

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) 
{
let contentInsets = self.tblView.contentInset as UIEdgeInsets
self.tblView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: contentInsets.top, left: contentInsets.left, bottom: 0, right:contentInsets.right)
 }

Answer 5

For Swift 3, I made a UIViewController subclass since I needed constant behavior in all View Controllers.

class SomeClassVC: UIViewController {

  //MARK: - Lifecycle
  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    addKeyboardObservers()
  }

  override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

    removeKeyboardObservers()
  }

  //MARK: - Overrides
  override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    view.endEditing(true)
  }

  //MARK: - Help
  func addKeyboardObservers() {
    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)
  }

  func removeKeyboardObservers() {
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: self.view.window)
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: self.view.window)
  }

  func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    let keyboardHeight = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue.height
    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.1, animations: { () -> Void in
      self.view.window?.frame.origin.y = -1 * keyboardHeight!
      self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
    })
  }

  func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.1, animations: { () -> Void in
      self.view.window?.frame.origin.y = 0
      self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
    })
  }

  func resignTextFieldFirstResponders() {
    for textField in self.view.subviews where textField is UITextField {
      textField.resignFirstResponder()
    }
  }

  func resignAllFirstResponders() {
      view.endEditing(true)
  }
}

Answer 6

if you are like me who has tried all the above solutions and still your problem is not solved, I have a got a great solution for you that works like a charm. First I want clarify few things about some of solutions mentioned above.

1. In my case IQkeyboardmanager was working only when there is no auto layout applied on the elements, if it is applied then IQkeyboard manager will not work the way we think.
2. Same thing with upward movement of self.view.
3. i have wriiten a objective c header with a swift support for pushing UITexfield upward when user clicks on it, solving the problem of keyboard covering the UITextfield : https://github.com/coolvasanth/smart_keyboard.
4. One who has An intermediate or higher level in iOS app development can easily understand the repository and implement it. All the best