Making your iOS views scrollable

If you’re using iOS auto layout (you should) and you’ve ever tried to add a scroll view in Interface Builder or the Xamarin iOS Designer you might have noticed that it is not an easy task. If you’re interested, here are some instructions. This is especially true if you only realize that you need a scroll view after designing your view (after you’ve realized that the keyboard covers up parts of the view).

Here’s code to inject a UIScrollView at runtime to solve all your worries. Add this code to your base UIViewController for all controllers that should be vertically scrollable.

In Interface Builder or Xamarin iOS Designer you’ll need to make sure you’ve not only defined constraints for the vertical position of your elements but also a constraint to define the distance from the bottom of the bottom element to the bottom of the your view controller’s view. That way, you’ll have defined the vertical size of the scroll view’s content view.