UITableViewCell Align all subviews - objective-c

I have a custom UITableViewCell which has some subviews. i.e. some labels, some images. I want all these subviews to be right aligned in the UITable. How do i do that?
I have tried these approaches -
1.In InterfaceBuilder when I select the UITableViewCell, I can set the "indentaion" section. It's by default 0, I made it 100 but I see no change in the device.
2.I have tried this in the code too. Override the default method...
(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
indentationLevelForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
return 100;
}
The above code also does not work. How do I align all my subviews in my UITableViewCell to right?
Basically, I want to display one cell left aligned (which is default) & some cells right aligned. As shown in the picture.

There is automatic way everything will align to right. You will have to lay the view appropriately. For UITextField and UILabel objects you can set the textAlignment property to UITextAlignmentRight.
label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
If necessary you must also adjust the autoresizingMask of the views to set it such that it has a UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin mask set so that they stick to the right on view resize.

use interface builder for alignment.

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UITableView background color won't change

I know this question has been asked before and i've been searching for hours now but I just can't find the answer. I want to change the color of the table that shows when u drag down the table on the absolute top as here:
Picture
The part between the searchbox and the segmented control.
I'm not sure which element it is where I have to change the color. I tried everything I could find over the interface builder (table, searchbar, cell) and it seems like nothing can help.
I read this post about changing the UITableView's background color but that also didn't do the job for me: Post about background colors
I know that when I usually change the color of the underlying view of the table that this background color changes, but not in this table so i thought something is might overlapping.
UPDATE
I figured that this only happens when I add a search bar with search display controller, but I still dont know where to change the background color there.
So maybe someone could tell me which element it is that I'm trying to change.
Thanks in advance :)
Set the background color of the UITableView in ViewDidLoad Method not in XIB.
(void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.myTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}
And CellForROwAtIndexPathMethod,mention the Background color of cell and ContentView of Cell to Clear Color.
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
.....
cell.backgroundColor =[UIColor clearColor];
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
....
}

UITableVIew header without bouncing when pull down

I have a UITableView which I am able to add a header view to fairly easily. Many apps (like Facebook, for viewing events) have a headerView that when you pull down, the header view stays put but the rest of the table (the UITableViewCell's) are bouncing. When scrolling up the header disappears. How can I achieve this functionality?
Right now when I pull down the UITableView, even the headerView bounces as well
You can achieve this effect quite easily by adding a subview to the header view and adjusting its frame or transform when the table view is scrolled beyond the top, i.e. the y component of its contentOffset becomes negative.
Example (in a UITableViewController subclass):
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
CGFloat headerHeight = 64.0f;
UIView *headerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 0, headerHeight)];
UIView *headerContentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:headerView.bounds];
headerContentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
headerContentView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
[headerView addSubview:headerContentView];
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = headerView;
}
//Note: UITableView is a subclass of UIScrollView, so we
// can use UIScrollViewDelegate methods.
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
CGFloat offsetY = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
UIView *headerContentView = self.tableView.tableHeaderView.subviews[0];
headerContentView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, MIN(offsetY, 0));
}
(to keep it simple, I've just used the first subview of the actual header view in scrollViewDidScroll:, you may want to use a property for that instead.)
Your UITableView is most likely working properly. Section headers are sticky by default in Plain style tables. Meaning as you scroll down the header stays at the top of the UITableView's frame until the next section header pushes it out of the way. The opposite occurs when you scroll up. Conversely you get the sticky behavior on section footers at the bottom of the UITableView's frame.
EDIT Misunderstood the original question:
I would suggest using a section header rather than the table view header to get the sticky behavior you're looking for.
Include a section in your data with no rows and put your table header's view in that section header view.
you can use this line in view did load: (swift 5.6)
tableView.bounces = false
There is 2 ways you can set the table header:
Using the .tableHeaderView property directly (this header scrolls with the table)
Overriding the - (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section function (this header stays static with the section)
By the sounds of it you should use the 2nd method instead of using the .tableHeaderView property

Resize UICollectionView cells after their data has been set

My UICollectionView cells contain UILabels with multiline text. I don't know the height of the cells until the text has been set on the label.
-(CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout
sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;
This was the initial method I looked at to size the cells. However, this is called BEFORE the cells are created out of the storyboard.
Is there a way to layout the collection and size the cells AFTER they have been rendered, and I know the actual size of the cell?
I think your are looking for the invalidateLayout method you can call on the .collectionViewLayout property of your UICollectionView. This method regenerates your layout, which in your case means also calling -collectionView: layout: sizeForItemAtIndexPath:, which is the right place to reflect your desired item size. Jirune points the right direction on how to calculate them.
An example for the usage of invalidateLayout can be found here. Also consult the UICollectionViewLayout documentation on that method:
Invalidates the current layout and triggers a layout update.
Discussion:
You can call this method at any time to update the layout information. This method invalidates the layout of the collection view itself and returns right away. Thus, you can call this method multiple times from the same block of code without triggering multiple layout updates. The actual layout update occurs during the next view layout update cycle.
Edit:
For storyboard collection view which contains auto layout constraints, you need to override viewDidLayoutSubviews method of UIViewController and call invalidateLayout collection view layout in this method.
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
[yourCollectionView.collectionViewLayout invalidateLayout];
}
subclass UICollectionViewCell and override layoutSubviews like this
hereby you will anchor cell leading and trailing edge to collectionView
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
self.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.frame.origin.y, self.superview!.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)
}
Hey in the above delegate method itself, you can calculate the UILabel size using the below tricky way and return the UICollectionViewCell size based on that calculation.
// Calculate the expected size based on the font and
// linebreak mode of your label
CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(9999,9999);
CGSize expectedLabelSize =
[[self.dataSource objectAtIndex:indexPath.item]
sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:#"Arial" size:18.0f]
constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize
lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
- (void)viewDidLoad {
self.collectionView.prefetchingEnabled = NO;
}
In iOS 10, prefetchingEnabled is YES by default. When YES, the collection view requests cells in advance of when they will be displayed. It leads to crash in iOS 10

How to change UITableViewCell appearance if cellForRowAtIndexPath is not calling

I have a table view in my app. The table view cells has background with pattern image. Table view content is changing and sometimes there are only two or three cells with content info. And table view automatically add other cells to bottom of screen. The problem is the background of these cells is clear but i want to make background same as other cells (with pattern image). Usually i change cells appearance in cellForRowAtIndexPath. But table view don'call this method for cells that created automatically. So, is there any solution?
You could do this in viewDidLoad()
self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; // set your color for tableview here This should color the search results table cells to the color of your preference. Another delegate you could investigate using is: - (void)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; // your color here
}Hope this helps.
Did you try to subclass your tableview cells and set their background in their initializer?

UITableViewCell Delete button screws up textLabel when using line break in text

I have a UITableViewCell, when swipe to bring up the Delete button it screws up the textLabel because I am using a line break in text.
Before:
In delete mode:
This is frustrating because I just want the delete button to go over my text, rather than trying to animate it out of the way which screws it up.
Why does this happen? Because I use a line break in my string?
How can I prevent this from happening?
Why does this happen? Because I use a line break in my string?
It happends because you've added the label to the contentView of the cell (which is good). When the delete button appears the contentView will be automatically resized and the UITableViewCell's textLabel will resize as well because it's autoresizingMask is set to UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth. Unfortunately we cannot override the autoresizingMask of the default textLabel.
How can I prevent this from happening?
You'll have to build a custom cell yourself. Subclass UITableViewCell with a custom UILabel as a property and set it's autoresizingMask to UIViewAutoresizingNone.
//create and set your frame to whatever you want.
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, 20, 110, 20)];
//set autoresizing
[label setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingNone];
//add to view
[[self contentView] addSubview:label];
//set property to acces later
[self myLabel:label];
//release (if you aren't using ARC)
[myLabel release];
add some sample text to test it later on
[[cell myLabel] setText:#"MAX: 72.92 MPH Will fit!"];
If you're using interfacebuilder to create your view/cells make sure the autoresizing mask arrow's are grayed out.
You should be able to access the UITableViewCell's textLabel.Frame property. Subclass UITableViewCell and set this in [UITableViewCell didTransitionToState:(UITableViewCellStateMask)state]