Keyboard “WillShow” and “WillHide” vs. Rotation

Question

I\'ve got a view controller listening for both UIKeyboardWillShowNotification and UIKeyboardWillHideNotification. The handlers for these notifications adjust various parts of th

Answer 1

Recently I've wrote a blog post about this exact problem you've described and how to solve it with a short and elegant way. Here is the link to the post: Synchronizing rotation animation between the keyboard and the attached view

If you don't want to dive into the long explanation described in the blog post here is a short description with a code example:

The basic principle is to use the same method that everyone uses - observing keyboard notifications to animate the attached view up and down. But in addition to that, you have to cancel these animations when the keyboard notifications are fired as a consequence of interface orientation change.

Rotation example without animation cancellation custom on interface orientation change:

Rotation example with animation cancellation on interface orientation change:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
            addObserver:self selector:@selector(adjustViewForKeyboardNotification:)
            name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
            addObserver:self selector:@selector(adjustViewForKeyboardNotification:)
            name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidDisappear:animated];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
            removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
            removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration {
    [super willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:toInterfaceOrientation duration:duration];
    self.animatingRotation = YES;
}

- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation {
    [super didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:fromInterfaceOrientation];
    self.animatingRotation = NO;
}

- (void)adjustViewForKeyboardNotification:(NSNotification *)notification {
    NSDictionary *notificationInfo = [notification userInfo];

    // Get the end frame of the keyboard in screen coordinates.
    CGRect finalKeyboardFrame = [[notificationInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];

    // Convert the finalKeyboardFrame to view coordinates to take into account any rotation
    // factors applied to the window’s contents as a result of interface orientation changes.
    finalKeyboardFrame = [self.view convertRect:finalKeyboardFrame fromView:self.view.window];

    // Calculate new position of the commentBar
    CGRect commentBarFrame = self.commentBar.frame;
    commentBarFrame.origin.y = finalKeyboardFrame.origin.y - commentBarFrame.size.height;

    // Update tableView height.
    CGRect tableViewFrame = self.tableView.frame;
    tableViewFrame.size.height = commentBarFrame.origin.y;

    if (!self.animatingRotation) {
        // Get the animation curve and duration
        UIViewAnimationCurve animationCurve = (UIViewAnimationCurve) [[notificationInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] integerValue];
        NSTimeInterval animationDuration = [[notificationInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue];

        // Animate view size synchronously with the appearance of the keyboard. 
        [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
        [UIView setAnimationDuration:animationDuration];
        [UIView setAnimationCurve:animationCurve];
        [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];

        self.commentBar.frame = commentBarFrame;
        self.tableView.frame = tableViewFrame;

        [UIView commitAnimations];
    } else {
        self.commentBar.frame = commentBarFrame;
        self.tableView.frame = tableViewFrame;
    }
}

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