How do I make a keyboard push the view up when it comes on screen? Xcode Swift

Question

I have a view with a text field in it, but the text field is at the bottom. When I click the keyboard, it pops up and covers the text field, this is my problem. I was wondering if it is at all possible to push the rest of the view up when a keyboard comes up?

Answer 1

You can register your view controller to be notified when the keyboard is about to be shown, then you push your view up.

lass ViewController: UIViewController {

var keyboardAdjusted = false
var lastKeyboardOffset: CGFloat = 0.0

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillShow:", name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillHide:", name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}

override func viewDidDisappear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidDisappear(animated)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().removeObserver(self, name: UIKeyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)
}

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
    if keyboardAdjusted == false {
        lastKeyboardOffset = getKeyboardHeight(notification)
        view.frame.origin.y -= lastKeyboardOffset
        keyboardAdjusted = true
    }
}

func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {
    if keyboardAdjusted == true {
        view.frame.origin.y += lastKeyboardOffset
        keyboardAdjusted = false
    }
}

func getKeyboardHeight(notification: NSNotification) -> CGFloat {
    let userInfo = notification.userInfo
    let keyboardSize = userInfo![UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as! NSValue
    return keyboardSize.CGRectValue().height
}

}