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iOS

Sean Lee
Sean Lee
5,196 Points
Posted by Sean Lee
Sean Lee
5,196 Points

BlogReader exercise, StoryBoard/TableView issue

Can someone tell me why my tableview is aligning everything to the top into the battery? When i run the app in my iPhone, the top gets cut off.

I followed the BlogReader exercise exactly but i'm still encountering this issue.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33810132/Pictures/blogReader.png

thanks!

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

thats because the status bar is transparent in iOS 7. That didnt occur in the older versions of iOS when the video was made. To remedy this you can add a table header to your tableView by placing the following code in your viewDidLoad method:

 UIView *headerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.tableView.frame.size.width, 20)];
 self.tableView.tableHeaderView = headerView;

you can play around with the height of the header (its 20 currently) to get the positioning you want

if you dont like the tableHeader hack you could try adding this in viewDidLoad instead ( I havent tried it so I dont know if this works well or not)

self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(20.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
Sean Lee
Sean Lee
5,196 Points
Sean Lee
Sean Lee
5,196 Points

Both hacks work! thanks for the input, really appreciate it.