Change height of inputAccessoryView issue

Question

When I change the height of inputAccessoryView in iOS 8, the inputAccessoryView not go to the right origin, but covers the keyboard.

Here are some code snippets:

in table view controller

- (UIView *)inputAccessoryView {
    if (!_commentInputView) {
        _commentInputView = [[CommentInputView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, [self width], 41)];
        [_commentInputView setPlaceholder:NSLocalizedString(@"Comment", nil) andButtonTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Send", nil)];
        [_commentInputView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
        _commentInputView.hidden = YES;
        _commentInputView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin;
    }

    return _commentInputView;
}

in CommentInputView

#when the textview change height
- (void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView willChangeHeight:(float)height {
    if (height > _textView_height) {
        [self setHeight:(CGRectGetHeight(self.frame) + height - _textView_height)];
        [self reloadInputViews];
    }
}

in UIView Category from ios-helpers

- (void)setHeight: (CGFloat)heigth {
    CGRect frame = self.frame;
    frame.size.height = heigth;
    self.frame = frame;
}

Answer 1

One way you can update the constraint mentioned in Yijun's answer when changing the height of the inputAccessoryView is by overwriting setFrame: on your inputAccessoryView. This doesn't rely on the height constraint being the first in the array.

- (void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    [super setFrame:frame];

    for (NSLayoutConstraint *constraint in self.constraints) {
        if (constraint.firstAttribute == NSLayoutAttributeHeight) {
            constraint.constant = frame.size.height;
            break;
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Finally, i found the answer. In ios8, apple add a NSContentSizeLayoutConstraints to inputAccessoryView and set a constant with 44. You can't remove this constaint, because ios8 use it to calculate the height of inputAccessoryView. So, the only solution is to change value of this constant.

Example

in ViewDidAppear

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    if ([self.inputAccessoryView constraints].count > 0) {
        NSLayoutConstraint *constraint = [[self.inputAccessoryView constraints] objectAtIndex:0];
        constraint.constant = CommentInputViewBeginHeight;
    }
}

change inputAccessoryView height when the textview height changed

- (void)growingTextView:(HPGrowingTextView *)growingTextView willChangeHeight:(float)height {

    NSLayoutConstraint *constraint = [[self constraints] objectAtIndex:0];
    float new_height = height + _textView_vertical_gap*2;

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.2 animations:^{
        constraint.constant = new_height;
    } completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        [self setHeight:new_height];
        [self reloadInputViews];
    }];
}

That is.