Question

I’m working on a component that is a subclass from UIView and contains a UIScrollView.
When scrolling, I noticed different behaviors depending on which SDK I build with. On iOS 4 the layoutSubviews message is send on the scroll view’s superview (which is my component) but on iOS 5 it seems that the message is not send anymore…

After taking a look at the iOS 5 release notes and changelog, I did not find any mention of such a change. Did I miss somethin?

Answer 1

In iOS5, layoutSubviews is not called on a scrollView’s superview. But it was in iOS4.

If you want this behavior in iOS5, do this in your subclass of UIScrollView:

- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [super layoutSubviews];

    // causes layoutSubviews to get called on superview
    [self.superview setNeedsLayout]; 

This was probably changed to be more efficient. Just because UIScrollView is scrolling, doesn’t mean it’s superview needs to layout itself.