iOS 8 cell resizing

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I have a subclass of a UITableViewCell and I override setFrame: to add insets to cell. In iOS 7 everything seems to work fine, on iOS 8 on the other hand, the table view loads the cells correctly but when I refresh the tableview the cells are resized. By commenting the code in the setFrame the tableview behaves correctly, but I also loose the insets. Has anyone experienced this?

UPDATE: AFAIK, in iOS 8 the cell frame height matches the row height.

I havent experienced this, but there is a very good article on cell resizing, I hope it helps http://www.appcoda.com/self-sizing-cells/ — DevC, Sep 18 '14 at 12:42
I'm experiencing the same behavior. When I toggle my tableview between editing and normal mode the insets are added on the frame.size.width, so the tablecell is getting smaller each time I switch to edit mode. — HashtagMarkus, Sep 18 '14 at 13:51

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 07:49

i got similar problerm.

solve it by:

- (void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
  NSInteger inset = kDefaultViewPadding;
  frame.origin.x += inset;
  frame.size.width = kMainScreenWidth - 2*inset;

  [super setFrame:frame];
}

where

#define kMainScreenWidth            ([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width)

,

don't use code like:

    frame.origin.x += TABLE_PADDING;

or

    frame.size.width = self.superview.frame.size.width - (2.0f * TABLE_PADDING);

otherwise, every time refresh tableview , the cell's width reduce (2.0f * TABLE_PADDING).

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

I don't know why the behavior changed in iOS 8 but I found a workaround.

In my case I changed the setFrame message to the following:

-(void) setFrame:(CGRect) frame {
    frame.origin.x += TABLE_PADDING;
    frame.size.width = self.superview.frame.size.width - (2.0f * TABLE_PADDING);
    [super setFrame: frame];
}

So I'm using the superview boundings for calculation. However this might not work in any case...

I ran into another problem while reordering the cell.

In case you are reordering try this:

-(void) setFrame:(CGRect) frame {

    if(isDragging)
        frame.origin.x = self.supervire.frame.origin.x + TABLE_PADDING;
    else
        frame.origin.x += TABLE_PADDING;

    frame.size.width = self.superview.frame.size.width - (2.0f * TABLE_PADDING);
    [super setFrame: frame];
}

To get the information if the TableCell is dragging I used the solution provided in this question: How to get notified of UITableViewCell move start and end

Edit I ran into more and more problems with the setFrame message, so I decided NOT to use the standard TableViewController. Now I'm using a standard ViewController with a searchbar and a search display controller. And a table View inside the controllers View. That way I can use autolayout constraints to adjust the table width. This seems to be the best solution for my case since I could not find any way to get it to work (in any case) using the setFrame message.

I've run into this same issue, but I'm also setting the frame height. It's still getting shrunk upon reload. I can't use the superview.frame because that would be the height of the entire screen. How could I go about this? — BlueBear, Oct 22 '14 at 02:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '14 at 07:22

I have partially solved my problem by moving the code from setFrame to layoutSubviews and instead of using self.frame, I use a property saved in awakeFromNib where I keep my bounds:

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
    CGRect bounds = self.cellBounds;
    CGRect boundsWithInsets = CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + horizontalPadding,
                                        bounds.origin.y + verticalPadding,
                                        bounds.size.width - 2 * horizontalPadding,
                                        bounds.size.height - 2 * verticalPadding);
    [super setBounds:boundsWithInsets];
}

The problem arises again when I swipe to enter in editing mode, and all my cells loose their left padding (as mentioned by @Zerd1984)

I should also mention that I use TLIndexPathTools library which currently is not updated to solve this issue.

iOS 8 cell resizing

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