How to adjust the height of a textview to his content in SWIFT?

Question

In my view controller, I have an UITextView. This textview is filled with a string. The string can be short or long. Depending on the length of the string, the height of the textview has to adjust. I use storyboards and auto layout.

I have some troubles with the height of the textview.

Sometimes, the height is perfectly adjusted to the text. Sometimes, no, the text is cropped on the first line. Below, the textview is yellow. the blue is a containerview inside a scrollview. Purple is the place for a picture.

The texts are from my core data base, they are string attributes. Between the screen 1 and 2, the only thing changed is the string.
If I print the strings in the console I have the correct texts :

my amazing new title

Another funny title for demo

The constraints of my textview :

I don't understand why I have 2 different displays.

EDIT

I tried the @Nate advice, in viewDidLoad, I added:

    myTextViewTitle.text="my amazing new title"

    myTextViewTitle.setContentHuggingPriority(1000, forAxis: UILayoutConstraintAxis.Vertical)
    myTextViewTitle.setContentCompressionResistancePriority(1000, forAxis: UILayoutConstraintAxis.Vertical)
    myTextViewTitle.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)  

    let views = ["new_view": myTextViewTitle]
    var constrs = NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("|-8-[new_view]-8-|", options: NSLayoutFormatOptions(0), metrics: nil, views: views)
    self.view.addConstraints(constrs)
    self.view.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-8-[new_view]", options: NSLayoutFormatOptions(0), metrics: nil, views: views))
    self.myTextViewTitle.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:[new_view(220@300)]", options: NSLayoutFormatOptions(0), metrics: nil, views: views))

No results. With or without height contraint added for my textview in interface builder...

EDIT 2

I need an UITextView and not an UIlabel, because of the back button, to use an exclusion path.

     let exclusionPathBack:UIBezierPath = UIBezierPath(rect: CGRect(x:backButton.bounds.origin.x, y:backButton.bounds.origin.y, width:backButton.bounds.width+10, height:backButton.bounds.height))
     myTextViewTitle.textContainer.exclusionPaths=[exclusionPathBack]

Solution 1

I found a solution.

I was focus on the height of my UITextView, then I read a post talking about the aspect ratio. I wanted to try and that worked!

So in the storyboard, I added an aspect ratio for the textview, and I checked "Remove at build time" option.

In viewDidLayoutSubviews(), I wrote :

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {

    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

    let contentSize = self.myTextViewTitle.sizeThatFits(self.myTextViewTitle.bounds.size)
    var frame = self.myTextViewTitle.frame
    frame.size.height = contentSize.height
    self.myTextViewTitle.frame = frame

    aspectRatioTextViewConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: self.myTextViewTitle, attribute: .Height, relatedBy: .Equal, toItem: self.myTextViewTitle, attribute: .Width, multiplier: myTextViewTitle.bounds.height/myTextViewTitle.bounds.width, constant: 1)
    self.myTextViewTitle.addConstraint(aspectRatioTextViewConstraint!)

}

It works perfectly.

Solution 2

First, disable UITextView's scrollable. Two options:

1. uncheck Scrolling Enabled in .xib.
2. [TextView setScrollEnabled:NO];

Create a UITextView and connect it with IBOutlet (TextView). Add a UITextView height constraint with default height, connect it with IBOutlet (TextViewHeightConstraint). When you set your UITextView’s text asynchronously you should calculate the height of UITextView and set UITextView’s height constraint to it. Sample code:

CGSize sizeThatFitsTextView = [TextView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(TextView.frame.size.width, MAXFLOAT)];

TextViewHeightConstraint.constant = sizeThatFitsTextView.height; 

Solution 3

In Swift 3.0, where tvHeightConstraint is the height constraint of the subject TextView (if using for multiple textviews, would add it to the function inputs):

func textViewDidChange(textView: UITextView) {

        let size = textView.sizeThatFits(CGSize(width: textView.frame.size.width, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude))
        if size.height != tvHeightConstraint.constant && size.height > textView.frame.size.height{
            tvHeightConstraint.constant = size.height
            textView.setContentOffset(CGPoint.zero, animated: false)
        }
    }

H/T to @cmi and @Pablo Ruan

Solution 4

In swift 2.3:

 func textViewDidChange(textView: UITextView) {

    let size = textView.sizeThatFits(CGSize(width: textView.frame.size.width, height: CGFloat.max))
    if size.height != TXV_Height.constant && size.height > textView.frame.size.height{
        TXV_Height.constant = size.height
        textView.setContentOffset(CGPointZero, animated: false)
    }
}

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