Auto layout constraints issue on iOS7 in UITableViewCell

I had this problem as well.. It appears that the contentView's frame doesn't get updated until layoutSubviews is called however the frame of the cell is updated earlier leaving the contentView's frame set to {0, 0, 320, 44} at the time when the constraints are evaluated.

After looking at the contentView in more detail, It appears that autoresizingMasks are no longer being set.

Setting the autoresizingMask before you constrain your views can resolve this issue:

- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier
{
    self = [super initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
    if (self)
    {
        self.contentView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
        [self loadViews];
        [self constrainViews];
    }
    return self;
}

Swift5, ios14:

contentView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleHeight, .flexibleWidth]

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Apparently there is something wrong with UITableViewCell and UICollectionViewCell on iOS 7 using iOS 8 SDK.

You can update cell's contentView when the cell is reused like this:

For Static UITableViewController:

#ifdef __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED
#if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < __IPHONE_8_0

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [super tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

    if (NSFoundationVersionNumber <= NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_1)
    {
        cell.contentView.frame = cell.bounds;
        cell.contentView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin;
    }

    //your code goes here

    return cell;
}

#endif
#endif

Since Static Table View Controllers are fragile and can easy be broken if you implement some datasource or deletegate methods - there are checks that will ensure that this code will only be compiled and run on iOS 7

It is similar for standard dynamic UITableViewController:

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellID = @"CellID";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellID];

    if (NSFoundationVersionNumber <= NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_1)
    {
        cell.contentView.frame = cell.bounds;
        cell.contentView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin;
    }
    //your code goes here       
    return cell;
}

For this case we don't need the compilation extra check, since implementing this method is required.

The idea is the same for both cases and for UICollectionViewCell, like commented in this thread: Autoresizing issue of UICollectionViewCell contentView's frame in Storyboard prototype cell (Xcode 6, iOS 8 SDK) happens when running on iOS 7 only

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As cells are being reused and the height can change based on the content, I think in general it would be better to set the priority of spacings to less than required.

In your case the UIImageView has a spacing of 15 to the top and the bottom view has a spacing of 0 to the bottom. If you set the priority of those constraints to 999 (instead of 1000), the app will not crash, because the constraints are not required.

Once the layoutSubviews method is called, the cell will have the correct height, and the constraints can be satisfied normally.

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I still didn't find a good solution for storyboards... Some info also here: https://github.com/Alex311/TableCellWithAutoLayout/commit/bde387b27e33605eeac3465475d2f2ff9775f163#commitcomment-4633188

From what they advice there:

self.contentView.bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, 99999, 99999);

I've induced my solution:

right click the storyboard

Open As -> Source Code

search for string "44" there

it's gonna be like

.

<tableView hidden="YES" clipsSubviews="YES" contentMode="scaleToFill" alwaysBounceVertical="YES" dataMode="prototypes" style="plain" separatorStyle="none" allowsSelection="NO" rowHeight="44" ...
    <tableViewCell contentMode="scaleToFill" selectionStyle="default" indentationWidth="10" reuseIdentifier="ChatMessageCell" id="bCG-aU-ivE" customClass="ChatMessageCell">
        <rect key="frame" x="0.0" y="22" width="320" height="44"/>

.

replace rowHeight="44" with rowHeight="9999" and height="44" with height="9999"

right click the storyboard

Open As -> Interface Builder

run your app and check the output

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Just increase the default cell height. Looks like the problem is that the content of the cell is larger than the default (initial) cell size, violating some non-negativity constraints until the cell is resized to its actual size.

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Maybe set the view's priority large than 750 and less than 1000 can solve.

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0xac43620 V:[UIImageView:0xac47f50(62)]>",

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I had the same problem. My solution based upon others above:

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
    if (self) {
        // initialize my stuff
        [self layoutSubviews]; // avoid debugger warnings regarding constraint conflicts
    }
    return self;
}

Best, Alessandro

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I'v also faced this problem and none of the suggestions helped. In my case I had size selection cell, and it contained collectionView inside (every collectionView cell contained full size image). Now, the cell size heigh was a little bit bigger (60) than the collectionView (50) and images inside it (50). Because of that collectionView view has align bottom to superview constraint with a value of 10. That case me a warning, and the only way to fix that was to make cell height the same as its collectionView.

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I ended up by not using UITableViewCell in designer at all... I create there custom view and add it to content view of cell programmatically... With some help categories there is also no code boilerplate...

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If it works fine in iOS8,and get the warning in iOS7,you can search the storyboard source code, and find the right tableviewCell, then append the rect attribute after the tableviewCell line. Thanks to kuchumovn.

<tableViewCell contentMode="scaleToFill" selectionStyle="default" indentationWidth="10" .../>
                                <rect key="frame" x="0.0" y="0.0" width="320" height="44"/>

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