Programmatically Linking UIPageControl to UIScrollView

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Don't forget to set the UIScrollView's delegate = self (or wherever you have the selector below).

- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
    CGFloat pageWidth = self.scrollView.frame.size.width; // you need to have a **iVar** with getter for scrollView
    float fractionalPage = self.scrollView.contentOffset.x / pageWidth;
    NSInteger page = lround(fractionalPage);
    self.pageControl.currentPage = page; // you need to have a **iVar** with getter for pageControl
}

For your code it then would be:

.h file

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface HelpViewController : UIViewController{
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UIScrollView *scrollView;
@property (nonatomic, retain) UIPageControl * pageControl;
@end

.m file

#import "HelpViewController.h"

@interface HelpViewController ()

@end

@implementation HelpViewController
@synthesize scrollView=scrollView_;
@synthesize pageControl=pageControl_;

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        // Custom initialization
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    CGRect scrollViewFrame = CGRectMake(0, 62, 320, 404);
    self.scrollView = [[[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:scrollViewFrame] autorelease];
    self.scrollView.delegate = self;
    [self.view addSubview:self.scrollView];
    CGSize scrollViewContentSize = CGSizeMake(640, 404);
    [self.scrollView setContentSize:scrollViewContentSize];
    UILabel *label  = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(200, 200, 50, 21)];
    [label setText:@"Hello"];
    [self.scrollView addSubview:label];
    [self.scrollView setPagingEnabled:YES];
    self.scrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;
    self.pageControl = [[[UIPageControl alloc] init] autorelease]; 
    self.pageControl.frame = CGRectMake(110,5,100,100); 
    self.pageControl.numberOfPages = 2; 
    self.pageControl.currentPage = 0; 
    [self.view addSubview:self.pageControl];
    pageControl.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}

- (void)viewDidUnload
{
    [super viewDidUnload];
    // Release any retained subviews of the main view.
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

 - (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
        CGFloat pageWidth = self.scrollView.frame.size.width;
        float fractionalPage = self.scrollView.contentOffset.x / pageWidth;
        NSInteger page = lround(fractionalPage);
        self.pageControl.currentPage = page; 
    }


@end

This is actually quite simple to setup. Firstly you need to create the scroll view and page control. Make sure you implement UIScrollViewDelegate in the interface of the class.

    UIScrollView * scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
    scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(scrollView.frame.size.width * 3, scrollView.frame.size.height);
    scrollView.delegate = self;

    UIPageControl * pageControl = [[UIPageControl alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 90, scrollView.frame.size.width, 20)];
    pageControl.numberOfPages = scrollView.contentSize.width/scrollView.frame.size.width;
    [pageControl addTarget:self action:@selector(changePage:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];

Then you need to add the following two methods:

- (IBAction)changePage:(id)sender {
    CGFloat x = pageControl.currentPage * scrollView.frame.size.width;
    [scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(x, 0) animated:YES];
}

-(void) scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView  {
    NSInteger pageNumber = roundf(scrollView.contentOffset.x / (scrollView.frame.size.width));
    pageControl.currentPage = pageNumber;
}

These methods add the required communication between the page control and the scroll view.

Following code will work for Swift:

func addScrollView() {        
    let scrollView = UIScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 200))
    let numberOfPages: CGFloat = 4
    scrollView.contentSize = CGSize(width: scrollView.frame.width * numberOfPages, height: scrollView.frame.height * numberOfPages)
    scrollView.delegate = self
    scrollView.isPagingEnabled = true

    let pageControl = UIPageControl(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: scrollView.frame.height - 37, width: scrollView.frame.width, height: 37))
    pageControl.numberOfPages = Int(numberOfPages)
    pageControl.currentPage = 0
}

func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    let value = scrollView.contentOffset.x / scrollView.frame.size.width
    pageControl.currentPage = Int(round(value))
}

to get exact page index without rounding off the value simply put the pagecontrol.currentpage in the scrollViewDidEndDecelerating delegate method of scroll view.This works for me!