Why is a UIToolBar's height not being taken into account by bottomLayoutGuide and automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets in iOS7 (with autolayout)

Question

I haven't been to find anything about this, and it may be that there is no easy solution.

I have a scroll view (in this instance a UITableView) which is the first subview of my UIViewController's view (which is not itself a scroll view). This view controller is in a UINavigationController, and I have also added a UIToolBar as second subview of the view controller's view. Both the table view and the toolbar are positioned and sized in the view controller's view using autolayout (with the table view filling the view, and the toolbar being pinned to the bottomLayoutGuide of the view controller).

As I understood it, navigation bars and toolbars (which are pinned to the bottom of views) should influence the topLayoutGuide and bottomLayoutGuide of the view controller, and by this influence the contentInset of contained scroll views.

The navigation bar is being taken into account (by the topLayoutGuide and automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets) so that my table view content scrolls underneath it, but is visible below it, but my UIToolBar is not - either by bottomLayoutGuide or automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets. This behaviour is the same even if I position my toolbar with a frame (not using constraints).

Am I right in thinking that a UIToolBar pinned to the bottom of the view controller's view should be taken into account by the layout guides? If so, does anyone have any ideas as to why it is not?

If not, is there anywhere (amy method) where I can manually add the tollbar frame to the bottomLayoutGuide so that it is automatically propagated by automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets? And if not, in what method is it best to manually set the table view's content insets?

Answer 1

If you added one yourself it would just be a subview and would not affect the layout guides. Use the built in UIToolbar by setting the UINavigationBar .toobarHidden = false property. Then set the UIViewController.toolbarItems = ...

This toolbar will be your bottom layout guide