Objective C : How to create self.view inside Safe Area programmatically

Question

I have just changed my app from supporting iOS 8 and up to supporting iOS 9 and up.

Since I don't use storyboards to create my views, I was wondering if there's the "Use Safe Area Guides" option programmatically or something like that.

I've tried to anchor my view but they keep overlapping the top & bottom in the iPhone X simulator.

Answer 1

Try this in Objective-C and see:

UIView * myView = // initialize view using IBOutlet or programtically

myView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
myView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;

if (@available(iOS 11, *)) {
    UILayoutGuide * guide = self.view.safeAreaLayoutGuide;
    [myView.leadingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:guide.leadingAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.trailingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:guide.trailingAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:guide.topAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.bottomAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:guide.bottomAnchor].active = YES;
} else {
    UILayoutGuide *margins = self.view.layoutMarginsGuide;
    [myView.leadingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:margins.leadingAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.trailingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:margins.trailingAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:self.topLayoutGuide.bottomAnchor].active = YES;
    [myView.bottomAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:self.bottomLayoutGuide.topAnchor].active = YES;

}

// Refresh myView and/or main view
[self.view layoutIfNeeded];
//[self.myView layoutIfNeeded];

Ref from: Use Safe Area Layout programmatically - Swift

Result: