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Tell When a UIPageViewController is Scrolling (for Parallax Scrolling of an Image)


I am trying to make an effect similar to that found in the new Yahoo weather app. Basically, each page in the UIPageViewController has a background image, and when scrolling through the page view, the Image's location only scrolls about half the speed. How would I do that? I thought I could use some sort of Delegate Method in the UIPageViewController to get the current offset and then update the images like that. The only problem is that I cannot find anyway to tell if the UIPageViewController is being scrolled! Is there a method for that? Thanks!


Solution

  • for (UIView *view in self.pageViewController.view.subviews) {
        if ([view isKindOfClass:[UIScrollView class]]) {
             [(UIScrollView *)view setDelegate:self];
        }
    } 
    

    this gives you access to all standard scroll view API methods. And this is not using private Apple API's.

    I added traversing through subviews, to 100% find the UIPageViewController's inner scroll view WARNING: Be careful with scrollview.contentOffset. It resets as the controller scrolls to new pages

    If you need persision scrollview offset tracking and stuff like that, it would be better to use a UICollectionViewController with cells sized as the collection view itself and paging enabled.