iOS 8 UIView not moving up when keyboard appears

Question

I am developing a chat app which has UITableView and a UIView containing a UITextField and a UIButton in it. I am using the following code to move the UIView up when keyboard appears.

(void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{

    NSDictionary* info = [notification userInfo];
    CGSize kbSize = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.2f animations:^{

        CGRect frame = self.inputView.frame;
       UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = self.interfaceOrientation;
    if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || orientation ==        UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight)
            frame.origin.y -= kbSize.width;
        else
            frame.origin.y -= kbSize.height;

        self.inputView.frame = frame;
       ;
    }];
}

This code is working fine until iOS 7, but in iOS 8 UIView is not displaying above the keyboard.

Can anyone please suggest what could be the possible issue, or is there anything that has changed in iOS 8?

Answer 1

Your code seems to be correct but i will prefer using UIKeyboardDidChangeFrameNotification or UIKeyboardWillChangeFrameNotification because these will tell you the change in keyboard frame when predictive text bar gets up or down when keyboard is in view.

In your ViewDidLoad add this

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(keyboardFrameDidChange:)
                                             name:UIKeyboardDidChangeFrameNotification object:nil];

and then paste this method in your ViewController

-(void)keyboardFrameDidChange:(NSNotification*)notification{
    NSDictionary* info = [notification userInfo];

    CGRect kKeyBoardFrame = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
    [yourView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, kKeyBoardFrame.origin.y-yourView.frame.size.height, 320, yourView.frame.size.height)];
}

This will handle all your keyboard cases like when its up or down or change in its frame with predictive text bar

and also remove observer when you are leaving your view

Answer 2

The accepted Answer is almost right. To match your view's animation to that of the keyboard you want to use the UIKeyboardWillChangeFrameNotification rather than the UIKeyboardDidChangeFrameNotification. That way the animations you kick off will precisely match that of the keyboard. Here's some code to do the entire thing. I use the animation of the keyboard to drive the animation of my autolayout constraint constants, but you can easily adapt this to animate an entire view frame. (Note, we have to use the old school style animations to hook into the UIKeyboardCurveInfoKey which provides an animation curve exactly matching the keyboard animation.

In viewDidLoad:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(keyboardFrameDidChange:)
                                             name:UIKeyboardWillChangeFrameNotification
                                           object:nil];

In ViewController:

- (void)keyboardFrameDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification {
    NSDictionary *info = [notification userInfo];

    CGRect kKeyBoardFrame = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue];
    CGFloat height = kKeyBoardFrame.size.height; 
    [self.view removeConstraints:self.verticalButtonConstraints];
    NSDictionary *metrics = @{@"height" : @(height)};
    NSDictionary *views = @{@"nextButton" : self.nextButton};

    self.verticalButtonConstraints = [NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:  [nextButton(52)]-(height)-|" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views];
    [self.view addConstraints:self.verticalButtonConstraints];

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:[notification.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] doubleValue]];
    [UIView setAnimationCurve:[notification.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] integerValue]];
    [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES];
    [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
   [UIView commitAnimations];

}