How do I set the height of tableHeaderView (UITableView) with autolayout?

Question

I\'m been smashing my head against the wall with this for last 3 or 4 hours and I can\'t seem to figure it out. I have a UIViewController with a full screen UITableView insi

Answer 1

I really battled with this one and plonking the setup into viewDidLoad didn't work for me since the frame is not set in viewDidLoad, I also ended up with tons of messy warnings where the encapsulated auto layout height of the header was being reduced to 0. I only noticed the issue on iPad when presenting a tableView in a Form presentation.

What solved the issue for me was setting the tableViewHeader in viewWillLayoutSubviews rather than in viewDidLoad.

func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
        super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()
        if tableView.tableViewHeaderView == nil {
            let header: MyHeaderView = MyHeaderView.createHeaderView()
            header.setNeedsUpdateConstraints()
            header.updateConstraintsIfNeeded()
            header.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, CGRectGetWidth(tableView.bounds), CGFloat.max)
            var newFrame = header.frame
            header.setNeedsLayout()
            header.layoutIfNeeded()
            let newSize = header.systemLayoutSizeFittingSize(UILayoutFittingCompressedSize)
            newFrame.size.height = newSize.height
            header.frame = newFrame
            self.tableView.tableHeaderView = header
        }
    }