iOS: UIButton resize according to text length

Question

In interface builder, holding Command + = will resize a button to fit its text. I was wondering if this was possible to do programmatically before the

Answer 1

Swift 4.2

Thank god, this solved. After setting a text to the button, you can retrieve intrinsicContentSize which is the natural size from an UIView (the official document is here). For UIButton, you can use it like below.

button.intrinsicContentSize.width

For your information, I adjusted the width to make it look properly.

button.frame = CGRect(fx: xOffset, y: 0.0, width: button.intrinsicContentSize.width + 18, height: 40)

Simulator

UIButtons with intrinsicContentSize

Source: https://riptutorial.com/ios/example/16418/get-uibutton-s-size-strictly-based-on-its-text-and-font