Need sample code to implement Paging Based UIScrollView - iphone

I am new to iOS development. Can anyone give me a working sample project/ tutorial of paging based scrollview? I need to load more data in my table view from a webservice as user scrolls down.
I have spent a lot of time, but could not find anything that suits my need. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I was able to figure out the solution of my problem. Now I am trying to detect scroll up and down based on the y offset difference. The problem is it always reads the drag to be downwards even if it is upward. This is how I am trying to detect the scroll direction:
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView willDecelerate:(BOOL)decelerate
{
CGPoint scrollOffSet = scrollView.contentOffset;
NSLog(#"Current Content offset: , y = %f", scrollOffSet.y);
NSLog(#"Previous offset , y = %f", self.previousYOffset);
if(scrollOffSet.y > self.previousYOffset)
{
self.previousYOffset = scrollOffSet.y;
NSLog(#"Scrolled Down");
self.nextPageNumber++;
//Here I send the request to fetch data for next page number
}
else {
NSLog(#"Scrolled up");
self.previousYOffset = scrollOffSet.y;
}
}
- (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
CGPoint scrollOffSet = scrollView.contentOffset;
NSLog(#"Current Content offset: y = %f", scrollOffSet.y);
}
The problem is: either i scroll up or down, it will always display "scrolled down", thus it goes to fetch data for next page number even if it was not intended to request. Plus, the y offset positions it returns on up/down scroll are also very confusing. Please guide me how to accurately detect an upside scroll?

Do you mean a "swipable" UIScrollView?
Paging a UIScrollView is quite easy. First make sure you have the pagingEnabled property set to YES. The UIScrollView will use it's own frame as the size of a page (like a viewport).
Use the contentSize property to determine the scrollable area.
Example:
//scrollView is a UIScrollView instance
int pageCount = 3;
scrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(scrollView.frame.width*pageCount, scrollView.frame.height);

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Objective C: How can use two scrollview, one inside the another?

I have two scrollview, one scrollview inside another and I want to scroll my main scrollview content first after that only I want to scroll subview scroll
CGFloat scrollOffset = texscrl.contentOffset.y;
if (scrollOffset == 0)
{
//This condition will be true when scrollview will reach to bottom
self.ArtistScroll.scrollEnabled=YES;
texscrl.scrollEnabled=YES;
}else
{
self.ArtistScroll.scrollEnabled=NO;
texscrl.scrollEnabled=YES;
}
Here, am using content offset for this.. so can anyone help me?
You can achieve the affect you describe by using a third scrollview to actually handle the touch gestures and manually set the contentOffset of the other scrollviews.
Here is how to achieve this for vertically scrolling content, which is I think what you are describing. In the code, outerScrollView is the main scrollview, innerScrollView is the sub-scrollview that is contained by the outer scrollview, and trackingScrollView is the third scrollview that only handles the touches - it has no content.
Create the three scrollviews such that trackingScrollView exactly covers outerScrollView. (I assume you will do this in XIB or storyboard so there is no code.)
Once your scrollviews have content (and whenever their contentSize or bounds change) you should set the contentSize of trackingScrollView:
self.trackingScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.trackingScrollView.bounds.size.width,
self.outerScrollView.contentSize.height + self.innerScrollView.contentSize.height - self.innerScrollView.bounds.height);
This makes the content height be that of outerScrollView plus the scrollable distance of innerScrollView, allowing trackingScrollView to scroll over the total travel distance of both scrollviews.
Delegate for trackingScrollView and implement scrollViewDidScroll:
- (void) scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
if (scrollView == self.trackingScrollView) {
CGFloat const offsetY = self.trackingScrollView.contentOffset.y;
// Calculate the maximum outer scroll offset
CGFloat const maxOuterOffsetY = self.outerScrollView.contentSize.height - self.outerScrollView.bounds.height;
// Calculate the maximum inner scroll offset
CGFloat const maxInnerOffsetY = self.innerScrollView.contentSize.height - self.innerScrollView.bounds.height;
if (offsetY < maxOuterOffsetY) {
// Scroll is within the outer scroll area or the top bounce zone
self.outerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, offsetY);
self.innerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointZero;
} else if (offsetY < maxOuterOffsetY + maxInnerOffsetY) {
// Scroll is within the inner scroll area
self.outerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, maxOuterOffsetY);
self.innerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, offsetY - maxOuterOffsetY);
} else {
// Scroll is within the bottom bounce zone
self.outerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, offsetY - maxInnerOffsetY);
self.innerScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, maxInnerOffsetY);
}
} else {
// Handle other scrollviews as required
}
}
Effectively we divide the tracking scroll area into two parts. The top part controls the scrolling within the outer scrollview and the bottom part controls the inner scrollview.
Assuming bounce is turned on (which generally it should be) we also need to handle scrolling outside the scroll area. We want the bounce to show on the outer scrollview so the top bounce is handled implicitly by the first conditional. However, the bottom bounce has to be handled explicitly by the third conditional, otherwise we would see the bounce on the inner scrollview.
To be clear, in this solution the two content scrollviews (outerScrollView and innerScrollView) do not receive any touches at all; all input is going to trackingScrollView. If you want input to subviews of the content scrollviews you will need a more advanced solution. I believe this can be done by putting trackingScrollView behind outerScrollView, removing outerScrollView's gesture recognizers and replacing them with those from trackingScrollView. I have seen this technique presented in an old WWDC session on UIScrollView but I have not tried it myself.

UIImageView stops resizing when fast scrolling a UIScrollView

So i got an imageView inside a ScrollView that should resize, which works the way i want (see a small video here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80699/scroll.m4v)
what i did is setting up a UIScrollViewDelegate and using the scrollViewDidScroll method to resize my image based on the scrolling offset
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)aScrollView
{
CGFloat scrollViewOffset = aScrollView.contentOffset.y;
if(scrollViewOffset < 0.0f) {
// postition top
CGRect imageViewRect = self.imageView.frame;
imageViewRect.origin.y = scrollViewOffset;
if(scrollViewOffset < 0.0f && scrollViewOffset >= -50.0f) {
CGFloat newBackdropHeight = kImageHeight - scrollViewOffset;
imageViewRect.size.height = newBackdropHeight;
}
self.imageView.frame = imageViewRect;
}
}
whats basically happening here is, that if the user is scrolling upwards when he is on the top (bounces enabled) the imageView expands with the scroll until a certain amount of offset(here 60px).
the problem with this is, that if i scroll very fast, the image stops resizing, but the rest of the scrollview scrolls fast down like it would normally do. then, when the scrollview snaps back, the image expands immediately and then scales down like it should (see video here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80699/scroll2.m4v).
with this behavior, the user-expierience is not very nice and the user sees a jumping image.
does anybody know how i could fix this?
here is a small sample project if you want to see the behavior yourself: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80699/scroll.zip
thanks for your help!
if anything is unclear, PLEASE leave a comment
I had a quick look at your test project, and I believe the issue is that when you scroll quickly, by the time the callback is called the Y offset is greater than -50, so the image view is not resized.
I solved this by removing the inner if condition and giving the backdrop a maximum height:
if(scrollViewOffset < 0.0f) {
// postition top
CGRect imageViewRect = self.imageView.frame;
imageViewRect.origin.y = scrollViewOffset;
CGFloat newBackdropHeight = kImageHeight - MAX(scrollViewOffset,-50.0);
imageViewRect.size.height = newBackdropHeight;
self.imageView.frame = imageViewRect;
}
Hope that helps

How do you zoom a UIScrollView's content to fit

My UIScrollView on the iPhone is 480x230 and the content is 972x230 when first displayed. I need to provide functionality where when the user double taps the UIScrollView the contents zoom to fit with the 480x230 UIScrollView proportionally. When the double tap it again it should zoom back out to it's original size.
What is the best way to do this? I have been fumbling for several hours with this and thought that this would work...
[bodyClockScrollView zoomToRect:bodyClockScrollView.frame animated:YES];
But nothing seems to happen.
Thanks, any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
You need to make sure the class you've set up as the scrollview's delegate implements this method:
-(UIView *) viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return someView;
}
Using CGAffineTransform I figured out a way to do what I want...
//bodyCleckScrollView contains a UIView name bodyClock
//get the scale factor required to fit bodyClock inside the iPhone window and resize it...
CGFloat scale = 480/bodyClockScrollView.contentSize.width;
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformScale(bodyClock.transform, scale, scale);
//move bodyClock to the bottom of bodyScrollView.
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(bodyClock.transform, 0.0,bodyClockScrollView.frame.size.height-bodyClock.frame.size.height);
//scoll bodyScrollView so that bodyClock is centered in the window
CGPoint offsetPoint = CGPointMake(bodyClock.frame.origin.x, 0.0);
[bodyClockScrollView setContentOffset:offsetPoint animated:YES];
This works great and when I want to zoom it back out to the default size and position you simply call...
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

UIScrollView: single tap scrolls it to top

I have the UIScrollView with pagingEnabled set to YES, and programmatically scroll its content to bottom:
CGPoint contentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset;
contentOffset.y = scrollView.contentSize.height - scrollView.frame.size.height;
[scrollView setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:YES];
it scrolls successfully, but after that, on single tap its content scrolls up to offset that it has just before it scrolls down. That happens only when I programmaticaly scroll scrollView's content to bottom and then tap. When I scroll to any other offset and then tap, nothing is happened.
That's definitely not what I'd like to get. How that should be fixed?
Much thanks in advance!
Timur.
This small hack prevents the UIScrollView from scrolling when tapped. Looks like this is happening when the scroll view has paging enabled.
In your UIScrollView delegate add this method:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
scrollView.pagingEnabled = self.scrollView.contentOffset.x < (self.scrollView.contentSize.width - self.scrollView.frame.size.width);
}
This disables the paging when the scroll view reaches the right end in horizontal scrolling (my use case, you can adapt it to other directions easily).
I just figured out what causes this problem, and how to avoid it. If you having pagingEnabled set to YES on a scroll view, you must set the contentOffset to be a multiple of the scroll view's visible size (i.e. you should be on a paging boundary).
Concrete example:
If your scroll view was (say) 460 pixels high with a content area of 920, you would need to set the content offset to EITHER 0 or 460 if you want to avoid the "scroll to beginning on tap" problem.
As a bonus, the end result will probably look better since your scroll view will be aligned with the paging boundaries. :)
The following workaround did help (assume that one extends UIScrollView with a category, so 'self' refers to its instance):
-(BOOL) scrolledToBottom
{
return (self.contentSize.height <= self.frame.size.height) ||
(self.contentOffset.y == self.contentSize.height - self.frame.size.height);
}
Then, one should sometimes turn pagingEnabled off, just at the position where scroll view reaches its bottom. In the delegate (pagingEnabled is initialy on of course, since the problem occurs only when it is enabled):
-(void) scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
if (scrollView.pagingEnabled == YES)
{
if ([scrollView scrolledToBottom] == YES)
scrollView.pagingEnabled = NO;
}
else
{
if ([scrollView scrolledToBottom] == NO)
scrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;
}
}
This seems to be a bug:
UIScrollView doesn't remember the position
I have tested this on iOS 4.2 (Simulator) and the issue remains.
When scrolling a ScrollView I would suggest using
[scrollView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1) animated:YES];
Where the rect is the position you're after. (In this case the rect would be the top of the scrollview).
Changing the content offset is not the correct way of scrolling a scrollview.

UIScrollView. Any thoughts on implementing "infinite" scroll/zoom?

So, UITableView supports essentially "infinite" scrolling. There' may be a limit but that sucker can scroll for a looonnnggg time. I would like to mimic this behavior with a UIScrollView but there are two fundamental impediments:
1) scrollView.contentSize is fixed at creation time.
2) zooming can blow any lazy-loading scheme all to hell since it can cause infinte data explosion.
Have others out there pondered this idea? Yah, I know, we are essentially talking about re-creating Google Maps here. Any insights would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Doug
I've just finished implementing the infitine scroll for me.
In my Implementation I have UITableViewCell with a scrollView and Navigationbuttons. The scrollView contains x views all with the same width. views are alined horizontally and paging is enabled.
scrollView.clipsToBounds = YES;
scrollView.scrollEnabled = YES;
scrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;
scrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;
My codelogic is like the following:
In my initialization function I
create all the views (for the scrollview) and
put them into an array and
add them to the scrollView
Then I call a function that calculates in a loop the positions for each view (each time you detect a scroll this function will need to be called too). It always takes the first element of the array and sets the frame to (0,0,...,...), the second with (i*width,0,....,....) and so on. The function beeing called looks like this:
- (void)updateOffsetsOfViews{
int xpos = 0;
for (int i=0; i<[views count]; i++) {
UIImageView *_view = [views objectAtIndex:i];
CGRect aFrame = _view.frame;
aFrame.origin.x = xpos;
aFrame.origin.y = 0.0;
_view.frame = aFrame;
xpos += viewWidth;
}
float center = 0;
if(fmod([views count],2) == 1){
center = viewWidth * ([views count]-1)/2;
}else {
center = viewWidth * [views count]/2;
}
[scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(center, 0)];
lastOffset = center;
}
Then (still in the initialization process) I add an observer
[scrollView addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"contentOffset" options:0 context:nil];
so each time something in the scrollView changes I get the (observeValueForKeyPath)-function called, which looks like this:
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
UIImageView *_viewFirst = (UIImageView *)[views objectAtIndex:0];
if ( fmod([scrollView contentOffset].x,viewWidth) == 0.0) {
if ([scrollView contentOffset].x > lastOffset) {
[views removeObjectAtIndex:0];
[views addObject:_viewFirst];
[self updateOffsetsOfViews];
}else if ([scrollView contentOffset].x < lastOffset) {
UIImageView *_viewLast = (UIImageView *)[views lastObject];
[views removeLastObject];
[views insertObject:_viewLast atIndex:0];
[self updateOffsetsOfViews];
}
}
}
And in dealloc or viewDidUnload (depends on how you implement it) don't forget to remove the observer.
[scrollView removeObserver:self forKeyPath:#"contentOffset"];
Hope this helps, you might notice some overhead, but in my implementation I also support like scrolling 5 pages (well... unlimited) at once and autoanimated scrolling etc. so you might see something that could be thrown away.
While it's impossible to have a truly infinite UIScrollView, there are some simple tricks you can use to emulate that behavior.
Handling the fixed contentSize: have some fixed-size view handled by your scroll view, and at launch or instantiation, set the content offset so that you're seeing the middle of the handled view. Then just watch the content offset (using KVO or some other method), and if you near any edge, update the content of the view with a new set of content (offset appropriately) and reset the scroll view's contentOffset property to be back in the middle.
Handling zooming: do something similar, only this time watch the zoom factor on the scroll view. Whenever it gets to a certain point, do some manipulation to whatever data you're presenting so that it appears zoomed, then reset the zoom factor to 1.0. For example, if you're scrolling an image and it gets zoomed to appear twice as large, programmatically apply some kind of transform to make the image twice as large, then reset the scroll view's zoom factor to 1.0. The image will still appear zoomed in, but the scroll view will be able to continue zooming in further as necessary. (Google Maps takes this one step further where it lazy-loads more detailed views as the user zooms - you may or may not choose to implement this.)
The StreetScroller sample project from Apple demonstrates how to perform infinite scrolling in a UIScrollView.
Bear in mind that when the scroll is animated, contentOffset changes many times, not just page by page, but with each step in the animation.
Perhaps setting contentSize to some gigantic value and then moving a limited number of underlying views around to track the view position as in the Tiling sample will do the trick.
To mitigate the possibility of eventually reaching an edge and having to abruptly recenter the view (which cancels any scrolling currently in motion), the view can be recentered when it is stationary, from time to time.
Anyway, that's what I'm about to try.