Resizing Subview by User by Dragging Vertical Line - swift

I try to find out if there is a chance to let the user resize a subview within an window by dragging a vertical line. The line is the NSBoxobject taken from the interface builder library. Both subviews (tableviewand textview) should resize itself in the horizontal direction by dragging the line during runtime.
Any hints? Thanks!

Please forgive me if I have miss understood your question as it seems very basic and I feel I’m missing something! Your request can easily be achieved through Storyboard Interface Builder, in your Object Library search both Vertical Split View and Horizontal Split View, these are great tools to allow the user to increase or decrease split view requirements. You can drop your desired views into either! And auto sizing will be maintained during user endeavours, alternatively Stack Views can maintain similar effects.

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UIStackView resizing my views

Im making a custom keyboard, and wanting a label and a textField centered in the space left over the keyboard, I figured the proper way would be to incorporate them in a UIstackView, and then centering the stack. However, i'm having som issues with the stack resizing my textField, causing whatever text i enter to be clipped.
I tried adding compressionresistance and a number of different solutions, but its clear to me that im missing some information about how UIStackViews work. Usually i make them work, but the whole resizing part I dont understand.
The first two screens are without a stack, adding them as subview to the viewcontrollers view, and the second screenshot shows the stackView resizing my textfield everytime the keyboard is resigned.
How can i stop the stackview from resizing its contained views?
It seems UIStackView is inherently a auto layout component, and when it adds your arranged subviews, it automatically positions them using constraints.
Since the UIStackView is adding constraints of its own, and the best way I found to stop it, was to simply explicitly set the subviews constraits:
textField.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 300).isActive = true
Apple doesnt like dynamic StackViews: "In general, you should not use dynamic stack views to simply implement a scratch-built table view clone." Read the
Apple Documentation on UIStackView for details.

Creating a scrolling grid of different width cells on iOS

I am new to iOS/Mac and ObjectiveC development and need a bit of guidance if someone could be so kind, so please excuse my ignorance.
The issue I have is I need to create a Grid view for a TV Guide where you have a vertical list of channel logos on the left that scrolls up and down, and to its right we have a horizontally and vertically scrolling grid. Horizontal scrolling doesnt move the channel logos which is fixed on screen, but vertically scrolling grid also scrolls the logos as you would expect.
Now being new to ObjC and iOS Frameworks, I was wondering which methods I should go down to implement this, Quartz2D perhaps? Or are their alternative simpler methods?
Whatever method is used, it needs to be quick with thousands of 'cells' across up to 600 rows; it also has to be memory efficient with out of view cells being disposed/reused as needed.
I am not necessarily asking for specific code (although that would be nice lol), just some advice on what methods to use so i can concentrate my education on those areas; if that is possible
Thanks.
It seems you do not really need two different scroll views / table views left and right, as the two sides should always scroll with each other.
Thus, just use a UITableView with a custom cell (subclass UITableViewCell) that has the logo on the left, and another scroll view (for horizontal scrolling) on the right.
Read Apple's Table View Programming Guide, and you will be on your way.

Better to use UIScrollView or UITableView for horizontal buttons?

I have a page enabled scrollview on an iPad. On the first page, I have a child scrollview that scrolls horizontally through image buttons. The buttons scroll the outer scroll view to the correct page. Its basically like a table of contents that jumps to the correct page.
My end goal is to be able to categorize the buttons seen in the child scroll view. So there would be a segmented control that changes what buttons you can see. So maybe one category would be ALL, and another category would be A-M, and another would be N-Z for example.
My question is, should I use a uiscrollview or a uitableview?
Right now I use a scrollview and it is really easy to get the buttons in. I could implement the different categories kind of gimmicky by having all of the buttons in the scrollview and then just showing or hiding the buttons accordingly. I feel that it'd be bad memory usage though.
For a uiscrollview i was looking at using EasyTableView, butI'm not 100% sure if this is compatible with what i want to do or if it'd even be better.
Any ideas for what the best way to implement this is? Specifically, I'm not sure of the best way to change the buttons when I change categories.
Thanks!
Use a tableview when you are dealing with data that is best expressed as sections and rows.
I think for your situation I'd have a UIView subclass that can display the images you need for a given category. Stick that on the outer scrollview as needed. You can keep memory low by only keeping the currently visible view and the ones on either side on the scrollview. When you scroll to a new location you can recreate the view needed for that page, and the ones surrounding it. Then you release the ones that are far away and let the system reclaim their memory if needed.

UIScrollView always bounce upwards and does not show scroll bar in iphone

This is probably simple but I do not seem to get it to work. I have a view and inside it I have a scroll view and inside it I have a view with some labels and a button. the height of the text inside the labels changes according to some condition so I need to scroll down to see it. But whenever I try to scroll down it bounce back up without giving me a chance to view the rest of the view.
Basically, I want when I scroll down, the view to remain down as it normally should. Besides I do not see the scroll bar at all when I'm scrolling.
I know I probably do not understand how scroll views work, so I'd appreciate any help to explain to me the behavior of scroll views.
P.S. I built my whole view in a nib file and this specific setup That I mentioned at the beginning is based on a suggestion from one question I read here.
Thanks, Mohsen
you need to set content size of your scroll view
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(360,1000)];
you can make the content size dynamic as per your calculation.

Interface Builder - Accurate Layout

I am working on a GUI in Interface Builder for an iPhone app.
In my view controller, I would like to have a toolbar at the top and then some controls (i.e. a view) that are centralized in the lower portion of the view.
The problem that I am having is that I want things to be centralized in the area below the toolbar but the whole screen size (including the toolbar) is being used when centralizing.
Any ideas how to effectively achieve this type of layout - it must be pretty common but I haven't found anything yet.
Thanks,
Alan
You might want to try putting all your control area below the toolbar in a separate subview, since that subview might do what you want as it resizes.