The safeAreaLayoutGuide is a property from UIView class (Apple iOS) representing the portion of the view that is unobscured by bars and other content.
Apple documentation for safeAreaLayoutGuide.
Questions tagged [safearealayoutguide]
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Get safe area inset top and bottom heights
On the new iPhone X, what would be the most proper way to get both top and bottom height for the unsafe areas?
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Safe Area of Xcode 9
While exploring Xcode9 Beta Found Safe Area on Interface builders View hierarchy viewer. Got curious and tried to know about Safe Area on Apples documentation, in gist the doc says "The the view area which directly interacts with Auto layout" But it…
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How do I use Safe Area Layout programmatically?
Since I don't use storyboards to create my views, I was wondering if there's the "Use Safe Area Guides" option programmatically or something like that.
I've tried to anchor my views to
view.safeAreaLayoutGuide
but they keep overlapping the top…
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iOS 11 safe area layout guide backwards compatibility
Is enabling Safe Area Layout Guides compatible to iOS below 11?
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leading or trailing horizontal alignment before iOS 11
Warning: leading or trailing horizontal alignment before iOS 11
I am getting above warning during compilation on Xcode 9.1 on one of the scenes in a storyboard file. There are other storyboards (with deployment target iOS 10.0) and yet the warning…
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Swift Safe Area Layout Guide and Visual Format Language
I want to use Apples visual format language to constrain a view to the new Safe Area Layout Guide in iOS 11. However, I get an exception:
-[NSLayoutYAxisAnchor nsli_superitem]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1c447ed40
//Make View…
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xcode Resolve "Safe Area Layout" errors
What is the correct way to stop this error?
For now I'm merely unchecking "Use Safe Area Layout Guides" which allows me to compile the app without error.
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How to extend bottom view colour below the home indicator in iPhone X?
Please check the attached image. The Viewcontroller's view's background colour is blue. This colour extends below the status bar and below the home indicator as you can see. There is a white view at the bottom which is a button. Here the white view…
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bottom layout deprecated since ios 11.0
What can I do to fix Bottom layout is deprecated iOS 11, I am using Xcode 9 beta 2.
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What is safe area in xib in xcode 9?
Can you please let me know what is safe area (highlighted in image) in xibs in xcode 9. and what is use of this?
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Can't use safe areas in Xcode 9 after upgrading minimum deployment target to iOS 9
I have just changed my app from supporting iOS 8 and up to supporting iOS 9 and up. I believe I've done this properly, since when I now build my app, I'm getting warnings for everything in the app which was deprecated in iOS 9.
I am using Xcode…
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Extend iOS 11 Safe Area to include the keyboard
The new Safe Area layout guide introduced in iOS 11 works great to prevent content from displaying below bars, but it excludes the keyboard. That means that when a keyboard is displayed, content is still hidden behind it and this is the problem I am…
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How to set unsafe area background color for ios 11
Creating some new view controllers with xcode 9 so now I have a few safe areas to deal with.
I am currently trying to do something fullproof, meaning keeping the unsafe area as it is (since I always display the status bar) and having the background…
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Child ViewController safe area inset doesn't update if partially offscreen
I am having difficulty with the Safe Area when sliding a child ViewController around on an iPhone X in landscape.
I have a root ViewController, and one of its views is moveable and contains an embedded child ViewController. The real app is a…
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Objective C : How to create self.view inside Safe Area programmatically
I have just changed my app from supporting iOS 8 and up to supporting iOS 9 and up.
Since I don't use storyboards to create my views, I was wondering if there's the "Use Safe Area Guides" option programmatically or something like that.
I've tried…
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