Why does UIViewController extend under UINavigationBar, while UITableViewController doesn't?

Question

I have UITabbarController with UINavigationController in it. I have a subclass of UIView that I assign as the view of

Answer 1

By default, UITableViewController's views are automatically inset in iOS7 so that they don't start below the navigation bar/status bar. This is controller by the "Adjust scroll view insets" setting on the Attributes Inspector tab of the UITableViewController in Interface Builder, or by the setAutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets: method of UIViewController.

For a UIViewController's contents, if you don't want its view's contents to extend under the top/bottom bars, you can use the Extend Edges Under Top Bars/Under Bottom Bars settings in Interface Builder. This is accessible via the edgesForExtendedLayout property.