Scroll UITextField above Keyboard in a UITableViewCell on a regular UIViewController

Question

I have tried most of the examples here on StackOverflow. I also used Apple\'s. The problem I seem to have with them is that they don\'t account for the UITextField being in

Answer 1

I tried the link that @inturbidus posted for iOS8 but unfortunately it did not work for me. After a bit of digging, it turns out that Apple does have sample code on their website to make this work naturally as they do in the UITableViewController. Here's the Apple link for the Objective-C version and I'm also adding the swift version here.

Objective-C link from Apple (Scroll to listing 5-1): https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/KeyboardManagement/KeyboardManagement.html

Swift adaptation of the Objective-C Version

var activeField: UITextField?

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) {
    self.activeField = textField
}

func textFieldDidEndEditing(textField: UITextField) {
    self.activeField = nil
}

func registerForKeyboardNotifications() {
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWasShown:", name: UIKeyboardDidShowNotification, object: nil)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillBeHidden:", name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}    

func keyboardWasShown(aNotification: NSNotification) {
    let info = aNotification.userInfo as! [String: AnyObject],
    kbSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as! NSValue).CGRectValue().size,
    contentInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: kbSize.height, right: 0)

    self.tableView.contentInset = contentInsets
    self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets

    // If active text field is hidden by keyboard, scroll it so it's visible
    // Your app might not need or want this behavior.
    var aRect = self.view.frame
    aRect.size.height -= kbSize.height

    if !CGRectContainsPoint(aRect, activeField!.frame.origin) {
        self.tableView.scrollRectToVisible(activeField!.frame, animated: true)
    }
}

func keyboardWillBeHidden(aNotification: NSNotification) {
    let contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero
    self.tableView.contentInset = contentInsets
    self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
}