DMHorizontalView

Ever found yourself making calculations to make horizontal distributions of UIImageView, UIView, UIButton or any other UIView subclass inside a superview? If so, this is a really simple solution for you. It allows you to make distributions horizontally in a super view and select vertical location.

Description

A very simple and easy to use tool to make horizontal distribution of subviews.

Usage

*Create a superview (the UIView which will contain the subviews). It can be created using storyboards or programmatically. *Crete an array of the subviews intended to be distributed on the superview. *Call the instance method horizontalViewWithViewsArray and that's it.

If all the subviews won't fit in the superview, automatically adds a three dots label (..) for you.

Installation

Drag to your project all files inside DMHorizontalView folder. If using swift, add UIView+HorizontalView.h to you bridging header file.

Example

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UILabel *titleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 200, CGRectGetWidth(self.view.frame), 70)];
    [titleLabel setTextColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    [titleLabel setText:@"Horizontal Distribution Fill"];
    [titleLabel setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];

    // creates the super view
    UIView *superView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, [titleLabel frame].origin.y + CGRectGetHeight([titleLabel frame]), CGRectGetWidth(self.view.frame), 70)];


    // creates the subviews empty array
    NSMutableArray<UIView *> *viewsArray = [NSMutableArray array];

    [viewsArray addObject:[self imageViewWithImage:[UIImage facebookImage]]];
    [viewsArray addObject:[self imageViewWithImage:[UIImage twitterImage]]];
    [viewsArray addObject:[self imageViewWithImage:[UIImage linkedInImage]]];

    // call the instance method
    [superView horizontalViewWithViewsArray:viewsArray withHorizontalDistribution:HorizontalDistributionFill andVerticalLocation:VerticalLocationCentered];

    [self.view addSubview:titleLabel];
    // add super view to view controller
    [self.view addSubview:superView];
}


-(UIView *) viewForSubviews {

    CGFloat size = 40;

    // CGPoint is not important
    UIView *subview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, size, size)];
    [subview.layer setCornerRadius:size/2];
    [subview setBackgroundColor:[self randomColor]];

    return subview;
    }

Options

Horizontal options

/**
 Horizontal distribution of subviews distribution in superview in the x axis
 */
typedef enum {
    /** Distributes subviews uniformally in superview */
    HorizontalDistributionFill,
    /** Distributes subviews with overlapping with the right on top of the left in superview */
    HorizontalDistributionOverlapped,
    /** Distributes subviews from left to right leaving 0 from subview to subview */
    HorizontalDistributionNormal
} HorizontalDistribution;

Vertical options

/**
 Vertical Location of subviews in superview in the y axis
 */
typedef enum {
    /** Top location in superview */
    VerticalLocationTop,
    /** Centered location in superview */
    VerticalLocationCentered,
    /** Bottom location in superview */
    VerticalLocationBottom
} VerticalLocation;