Width and Height Equal to its superView using autolayout programmatically?

Question

I've been looking for a lot of snippets in the net and I still can't find the answer to my problem. My question is I have a scrollView(SV) and I want to add a button inside scrollView(SV) programmatically with same width and height of its superview which is scrollView(SV) so that when user rotate the device button will have the same frame of scrollView(SV). how to do the NSLayout/NSLayoutConstraint? thanks

Answer 1

If someone is looking for a Swift solution – I would create a Swift extension for UIView which will help you each time you want to bind a subviews frame to its superviews bounds:

Swift 2:

extension UIView {

    /// Adds constraints to this `UIView` instances `superview` object to make sure this always has the same size as the superview.
    /// Please note that this has no effect if its `superview` is `nil` – add this `UIView` instance as a subview before calling this.
    func bindFrameToSuperviewBounds() {
        guard let superview = self.superview else {
            print("Error! `superview` was nil – call `addSubview(view: UIView)` before calling `bindFrameToSuperviewBounds()` to fix this.")
            return
        }

        self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        superview.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("H:|-0-[subview]-0-|", options: .DirectionLeadingToTrailing, metrics: nil, views: ["subview": self]))
        superview.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|-0-[subview]-0-|", options: .DirectionLeadingToTrailing, metrics: nil, views: ["subview": self]))
    }

}

Swift 3:

extension UIView {

    /// Adds constraints to this `UIView` instances `superview` object to make sure this always has the same size as the superview.
    /// Please note that this has no effect if its `superview` is `nil` – add this `UIView` instance as a subview before calling this.
    func bindFrameToSuperviewBounds() {
        guard let superview = self.superview else {
            print("Error! `superview` was nil – call `addSubview(view: UIView)` before calling `bindFrameToSuperviewBounds()` to fix this.")
            return
        }

        self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        superview.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraints(withVisualFormat: "H:|-0-[subview]-0-|", options: .directionLeadingToTrailing, metrics: nil, views: ["subview": self]))
        superview.addConstraints(NSLayoutConstraint.constraints(withVisualFormat: "V:|-0-[subview]-0-|", options: .directionLeadingToTrailing, metrics: nil, views: ["subview": self]))
    }
}

Swift 4.2:

extension UIView {

    /// Adds constraints to this `UIView` instances `superview` object to make sure this always has the same size as the superview.
    /// Please note that this has no effect if its `superview` is `nil` – add this `UIView` instance as a subview before calling this.
    func bindFrameToSuperviewBounds() {
        guard let superview = self.superview else {
            print("Error! `superview` was nil – call `addSubview(view: UIView)` before calling `bindFrameToSuperviewBounds()` to fix this.")
            return
        }

        self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        self.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.topAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        self.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        self.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.leadingAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        self.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.trailingAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true

    }
}

Then simply call it like this:

// after adding as a subview, e.g. `view.addSubview(subview)`
subview.bindFrameToSuperviewBounds()