UITableView has problems scrolling after upgrading to iOS5 - iphone

I just noticed now that I've updated my app to iOS 5, that when my tableview has fewer cells than fit the screen, it doesn't scroll, but if I click a cell to go to detail view, and then pop back to the table, it scrolls fine. Also, if I initially have more cells than fit on the screen, it scrolls fine from the start.
Any ideas?

Take a look at the Nib for the VC. XCode 4.2 has made some changes to IB and the way tables are dealt with, so that's probably where you issue lies.
Hope that helps.

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UIButton images look fine in IB but get stretched when displayed on app

I'm developing an Enterprise app for tracking mileage and maintenance for company vehicles. I've added graphic buttons to snazz it up a bit. The buttons look the way they're supposed to look on the XIB in IB, and on the iPhone all other UIViews look correct, but on one particular UIView the graphic images are stretched way out of proportion vertically.
The first image below shows how it's supposed to look, with the three graphics buttons at the bottom. The second image shows how it's showing on the phone. The Help button on this screen cap shows normally, but it can't be counted on to stay that way.
It also is not consistent. Calling this view at any time may show the image stretched or it may not show an image at all. It rarely shows the image normally, like the Help button looks below.
The development phone is a 4S running 6.1.3. The views are set for the Retina 3.5 screen. XCode is the latest (whatever it is).
Again, it's only on this one view that the problem shows up. There is another UIView on the same view controller that is hidden when this UIView is shown. The button graphics on the other view look fine. All of the other views and view controllers use the same graphics on the UIButton, without any problem.
In Interface Builder (Xcode) you created the view using a 4.5-inch screen height.
But the device where you are seeing the problem is a 5-inch screen. So the view is resized to fit.
And when it does that, the autolayout constraints that Interface Builder put on those subviews take over to determine what they do. Those constraints are causing the heights to change.
No need to turn Autolayout off. Autolayout can be very useful, but it seems to enjoy randomly assigning the constraint "Align Baseline to:" to UIButtons after repositioning them.
Just select the UIButton/UIImageView in question inside Storyboard, locate the constraint "Align Baseline to:", tap the gear icon and select "Promote to User Constraint", and tap once more and select "Delete". This should solve your issue.
In response to the comments here, I will answer my own question: I turned Autolayout off for this view controller, and that fixed everything. This is the first app I have written since XCode has begun development for the iPhone 5, so I wasn't aware of the Autolayout feature. I'll need to understand how it works and why it did what it did.
Thanks for all your help!

UIActivityIndicator as UITableView footer shows different behavior in devices

AM using a UIActivityIndicator view as a UITableViewFooter, works fine in simulator, but shows different behavior in devices,think that occurs due to OS change.
Sometimes it fits to the width of the screen and seems enlarged, in other cases simply disappears, Any solution?
Found the reason myself, adding UIActivityIndicator as footer causes trouble in certain devices, so its better to use text like "Loading..."if you still need to show a footer.Else add an extra cell to UITableView and add UIActivityIndicator to that last cell.
In my case, the error was while testing in 3GS, no trouble in other devices.
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iAD is obscured by UITableView Indices

I have a UITableView and I'm adding an iAD as a footer view at the bottom of the screen added to a UITableView.
The iAD is effectively pinned there since I update the iAD's position whenever the screen is scrolled with -(void)viewDidScroll...
However, since my UITableView is full of indexes, the indexes for some reason, appear IN FRONT of the iAD, effectively blocking it! The rest of the UITableView works fine, with the UITableViewCells appearing behind the iAD.
How can I fix this?
Here is a link to a tutorial that implements the iad in the bottom of the screen in uitableview, hope it helps. Adrian
http://www.ioslearner.com/implement-iads-tutorial-iphone-ipad-sdk/
You can try resizing the TableView and place it over iAD Frame, so that they dont overlap each other.
You could put the iAd in a fixed section of the table view. Alternatively I would just size the tableview (in interface builder or whatever) to make space for the iAd at the bottom.

iPhone MapView gets removed

I have a tabBar in my application. In one of the section i have two views which i toggle between using segment buttons.
In one of the view i have MapView which i use to display list of users using their pic as annotation. On the other view i have tableView which shows the same users in table format.
Now everything is working fine, i am getting all the users and it displays fine on the map. It works perfectly most of the time on all device and all iOS but sometimes when i bring the mapView to front or toggle or try to zoom in. Both the views (tableView and mapView) just gets removed somehow and i see black screen (which is btw my superview so thats not a problem).
Does anyone know why this happens. It happens frequently on iPhone 3G the older iPhone.
Thanx for any help.
I've had the same problem. I think it's due to low memory to which your app responds by deallocating the tableView and mapView. My solution was to have both views allocated in viewDidLoad. I'm not 100% sure about this, but you could give it a try.

UITableView Won't Scroll In Certain Conditions

My app has a set of categories. A category can have sub-categories.
DirectoryCategoryController is the first screen, displaying all the top-level categories. Works great. When you tap a cell, if the category selected has sub-categories, I instantiate a new instance of DirectoryCategoryController and push it to display the sub-categories. From there, you tap a sub-category and see the contents.
The problem is that while the top level works fine, when I tap in and see the sub-categories, the table view won't scroll. The search bar takes touches, the table cells take touches but up and down scrolling does not work, like the table view is vertically frozen in space.
If I tap the search bar and hit cancel or if I go into a sub-categories contents and then hit back, the very same table view that didn't scroll works just fine.
Also, if the table view has more items than fit on the screen (about anything bigger than 8 in this layout), everything works.
Very odd problem ; kinda blowing my mind. Any insight?
So, I figured this out and thought I would answer as a reference.
At this point, I think it may be an iPhone OS bug and I'm filing a RADAR.
A UIScrollView, of which UITableView is a subclass, will not attempt to scroll if everything fits on one screen.
In my case, it appears the scroll view thought everything fit (it was very close) but it didn't. Actually, if you removed the UISearchBar from the UITableView, everything would have fit and it wouldn't need to scroll. My guess is that it's incorrectly determining the geometry when the UISearchBar is attached.
Anyway, the work-around was to add this:
[self.tableView setAlwaysBounceVertical:YES];
The odd thing was that when another view was pushed and then popped, the vertical bounce worked fine, furthering my suspicions it's an iPhone bug.
I noticed the same thing when using A UITableView with a UISearchBar as the header view, as configured in Interface Builder in Xcode 4.3.1. In my viewDidLoadMethod, I added the following code and it fixed the problem for me:
self.contactsTable.bounces = YES;
I believe that it's a bug that disables the bounces property, but it can be fixed by re-enabling it.