How to get height of Keyboard?

Question

The height of a keyboard on varying iOS devices is different. Does anybody know how I can get height of a device's keyboard programmatically?

Answer 1

In Swift:

You can get the keyboard height by subscribing to the UIKeyboardWillShowNotification notification. (Assuming you want to know what the height will be before it's shown).

Something like this:

Swift 2

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

Swift 3

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

Swift 4

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

Then you can access the height in keyboardWillShow function like these:

Swift 2

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    let userInfo: NSDictionary = notification.userInfo!
    let keyboardFrame: NSValue = userInfo.valueForKey(UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey) as! NSValue
    let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.CGRectValue()
    let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
}

Swift 3

@objc func keyboardWillShow(_ notification: Notification) {
    if let keyboardFrame: NSValue = notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue {
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    }
}

Swift 4

@objc func keyboardWillShow(_ notification: Notification) {
    if let keyboardFrame: NSValue = notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue {
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    }
}

Answer 2

Swift 3.0 and Swift 4.1

1- Register the notification in the viewWillAppear method:

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

2- Method to be called:

@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardSize.height
        print(keyboardHeight)
    }
}

Answer 3

Swift 4 and Constraints

To your tableview add a bottom constraint relative to the bottom safe area. In my case the constraint is called tableViewBottomLayoutConstraint.

@IBOutlet weak var tableViewBottomLayoutConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

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

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillAppear(notification:)), name: .UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillDisappear(notification:)), name: .UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)
}

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

    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: .UIKeyboardWillShow , object: nil)
    NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: .UIKeyboardWillHide , object: nil)
}

@objc 
func keyboardWillAppear(notification: NSNotification?) {

    guard let keyboardFrame = notification?.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue else {
        return
    }

    let keyboardHeight: CGFloat
    if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
        keyboardHeight = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue.height - self.view.safeAreaInsets.bottom
    } else {
        keyboardHeight = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue.height
    }

    tableViewBottomLayoutConstraint.constant = keyboardHeight
}

@objc 
func keyboardWillDisappear(notification: NSNotification?) {
    tableViewBottomLayoutConstraint.constant = 0.0
}

Answer 4

Update Swift 4.2

private func setUpObserver() {
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: .keyboardWillShow, name: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
}

selector method:

@objc fileprivate func keyboardWillShow(notification:NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardRectValue = (notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectValue.height
    }
}

extension:

private extension Selector {
    static let keyboardWillShow = #selector(YourViewController.keyboardWillShow(notification:)) 
}

Update Swift 3.0

private func setUpObserver() {
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: .keyboardWillShow, name: .UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
}

selector method:

@objc fileprivate func keyboardWillShow(notification:NSNotification) {
    if let keyboardRectValue = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectValue.height
    }
}

extension:

private extension Selector {
    static let keyboardWillShow = #selector(YourViewController.keyboardWillShow(notification:)) 
}

Tip

UIKeyboardDidShowNotification or UIKeyboardWillShowNotification might called twice and got different result, this article explained why called twice.

In Swift 2.2

Swift 2.2 deprecates using strings for selectors and instead introduces new syntax: #selector.

Something like:

private func setUpObserver() {

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

selector method:

@objc private func keyboardWillShow(notification:NSNotification) {

    let userInfo:NSDictionary = notification.userInfo!
    let keyboardFrame:NSValue = userInfo.valueForKey(UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey) as! NSValue
    let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.CGRectValue()
    let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    editorBottomCT.constant = keyboardHeight
}

extension:

    private extension Selector {

    static let keyboardWillShow = #selector(YourViewController.keyboardWillShow(_:)) 
}

Answer 5

Shorter version here:

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {

        if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
            let keyboardHeight = keyboardSize.height
        }
}

Answer 6

Swift 4 .

Simplest Method

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

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {  

      if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
             let keyboardHeight : Int = Int(keyboardSize.height)
             print("keyboardHeight",keyboardHeight) 
      }

}

Answer 7

// Step 1 :- Register NotificationCenter

ViewDidLoad() {

   self.yourtextfield.becomefirstresponder()

   // Register your Notification, To know When Key Board Appears.
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(SelectVendorViewController.keyboardWillShow(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)

   // Register your Notification, To know When Key Board Hides.
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(SelectVendorViewController.keyboardWillHide(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)
}

// Step 2 :- These Methods will be called Automatically when Keyboard appears Or Hides

    func keyboardWillShow(notification:NSNotification) {
        let userInfo:NSDictionary = notification.userInfo! as NSDictionary
        let keyboardFrame:NSValue = userInfo.value(forKey: UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey) as! NSValue
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
        tblViewListData.frame.size.height = fltTblHeight-keyboardHeight
    }

    func keyboardWillHide(notification:NSNotification) {
        tblViewListData.frame.size.height = fltTblHeight
    }

Answer 8

The method by ZAFAR007 updated for Swift 5 in Xcode 10

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

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

}




@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {

    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
        let keyboardHeight : Int = Int(keyboardSize.height)
        print("keyboardHeight",keyboardHeight)
    }

}