iPhone Keyboard Covers UITextField

Question

The usual solution is to slide the field (and everything above it) up with an animation, and then back down when you are done. You may need to put the text field and some of the other items into another view and slide the view as a unit. (I call these things "plates" as in "tectonic plates", but that's just me). But here is the general idea if you don't need to get fancy.

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [self animateTextField: textField up: YES];
}


- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [self animateTextField: textField up: NO];
}

- (void) animateTextField: (UITextField*) textField up: (BOOL) up
{
    const int movementDistance = 80; // tweak as needed
    const float movementDuration = 0.3f; // tweak as needed

    int movement = (up ? -movementDistance : movementDistance);

    [UIView beginAnimations: @"anim" context: nil];
    [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState: YES];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration: movementDuration];
    self.view.frame = CGRectOffset(self.view.frame, 0, movement);
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

This worked wonders for me sliding uitextfields

In particular it has the benefit of calculating the slide animation distance depending on the position of the text field.

IQKeyboardManager do this for you with NO LINE OF CODE, only need to drag and drop related source file to project. IQKeyboardManager also support Device Orientation, Automatic UIToolbar Management, keyboardDistanceFromTextField and much more than you think.

Here is the Control Flow Chart:

Step1:- Added global notifications of UITextField, UITextView, and UIKeyboard in a singleton class. I called it IQKeyboardManager.

Step2:- If found UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, UITextFieldTextDidBeginEditingNotification or UITextViewTextDidBeginEditingNotification notifications, then try to get topMostViewController instance from the UIWindow.rootViewController hierarchy. In order to properly uncover UITextField/UITextView on it, topMostViewController.view's frame needs to be adjusted.

Step3:- Calculated expected move distance of topMostViewController.view with respect to first responded UITextField/UITextView.

Step4:- Moved topMostViewController.view.frame up/down according to the expected move distance.

Step5:- If found UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, UITextFieldTextDidEndEditingNotification or UITextViewTextDidEndEditingNotification notification, then again try to get topMostViewController instance from the UIWindow.rootViewController hierarchy.

Step6:- Calculated disturbed distance of topMostViewController.view which needs to be restored to it's original position.

Step7:- Restored topMostViewController.view.frame down according to the disturbed distance.

Step8:- Instantiated singleton IQKeyboardManager class instance on app load, so every UITextField/UITextView in the app will adjust automatically according to the expected move distance.

That's all

To expand on Amagrammer answer, here is a sample class:

LoginViewController.h

@interface LoginViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> {

}

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField    *emailTextField;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField    *passwordTextField;

Notice we are implementing the "UITextFieldDelegate"

LoginViewController.m

@implementation LoginViewController
@synthesize emailTextField=_emailTextField;
@synthesize passwordTextField=_passwordTextField;

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        //Register to receive an update when the app goes into the backround
        //It will call our "appEnteredBackground method
        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(appEnteredBackground)
                                                 name:UIApplicationDidEnterBackgroundNotification
                                               object:nil];
    }
    return self;
}


- (void) animateTextField: (UITextField*) textField up: (BOOL) up
{
    const int movementDistance = 80; // tweak as needed
    const float movementDuration = 0.3f; // tweak as needed

    int movement = (up ? -movementDistance : movementDistance);

    [UIView beginAnimations: @"anim" context: nil];
    [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState: YES];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration: movementDuration];
    self.view.frame = CGRectOffset(self.view.frame, 0, movement);
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [self animateTextField: textField up: YES];
}


- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [self animateTextField: textField up: NO];
}

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}
//This is called when the app goes into the background.
//We must reset the responder because animations will not be saved
- (void)appEnteredBackground{
    [self.emailTextField resignFirstResponder];
    [self.passwordTextField resignFirstResponder];
}

How about the official solution: Moving Content That Is Located Under the Keyboard

Adjusting your content typically involves temporarily resizing one or more views and positioning them so that the text object remains visible. The simplest way to manage text objects with the keyboard is to embed them inside a UIScrollView object (or one of its subclasses like UITableView). When the keyboard is displayed, all you have to do is reset the content area of the scroll view and scroll the desired text object into position. Thus, in response to a UIKeyboardDidShowNotification, your handler method would do the following:

1. Get the size of the keyboard.
2. Adjust the bottom content inset of your scroll view by the keyboard height.
3. Scroll the target text field into view.

// Call this method somewhere in your view controller setup code.
- (void)registerForKeyboardNotifications
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
            selector:@selector(keyboardWasShown:)
            name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];

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

}

// Called when the UIKeyboardDidShowNotification is sent.
- (void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
    NSDictionary* info = [aNotification userInfo];
    CGSize kbSize = [[info objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;

    UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, kbSize.height, 0.0);
    scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;

    // If active text field is hidden by keyboard, scroll it so it's visible
    // Your app might not need or want this behavior.
    CGRect aRect = self.view.frame;
    aRect.size.height -= kbSize.height;
    if (!CGRectContainsPoint(aRect, activeField.frame.origin) ) {
        [self.scrollView scrollRectToVisible:activeField.frame animated:YES];
    }
}

// Called when the UIKeyboardWillHideNotification is sent
- (void)keyboardWillBeHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
    UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
    scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
}

I have face the same issue in UITableView textField cells. I solve this issue by implementing following method to listen the keyboard notification.

Observer for the notifications here:

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

Handle those notification by using below function:

(void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification 
(void)keyboardWillBeHidden:(NSNotification*)aNotification 

Check this out. No hassle for you.

This solution is very neat. All you have to do is to add your textfields in a UIScrollView and change its class to TPKeyboardAvoidingScollView, if you are using storyboards. The scroll view is extended in such a way that it would detect when keyboard is visible and will move itself above keyboard at a reasonable distance. It is perfect solution because its independent of your UIViewController. Every necessary thing is done within the the above mentioned class. Thanks Michael Tyson et all.

TPKeyboardAvoiding