I’ve recently had to implement an autosizing text field in a couple different projects, so I decided to put it into a cocoapod, called SBTextInputView. It:
- uses autolayout, so it should be set for a future versions of iOS and all screen sizes
- has a translucent background, a UITextView, and a button, all of which are fully customizable
- can be added directly to your storyboard/xib file or used as an input accessory view.
The trickiest part was making it autosize while being an inputAccessoryView. First it had to add a hidden text field to its super view, and update its height automatically. It was a great opportunity to learn about autolayout and get it working for me instead of against, the way autolayout usually does.
Check it out on GitHub to see how it works; it comes with an example so you can see how easy it is to use. To add it to your project, just include:
pod ‘SBTextInputView’, :git => ‘https://github.com/schrockblock/SBTextInputView‘
in your Podfile.
schrock { block } 