Replacement for deprecated sizeWithFont: in iOS 7?

Question

In iOS 7, sizeWithFont: is now deprecated. How do I now pass in the UIFont object into the replacement method sizeWithAttributes:?

Answer 1

None of this worked for me in ios 7. Here is what I ended up doing. I put this in my custom cell class and call the method in my heightForCellAtIndexPath method.

My cell looks similar to the description cell when viewing an app in the app store.

First in the storyboard, set your label to 'attributedText', set the number of lines to 0 (which will resize the label automatically (ios 6+ only)) and set it to word wrap.

Then i just add up all the heights of the content of the cell in my custom Cell Class. In my case I have a Label at the top that always says "Description" (_descriptionHeadingLabel), a smaller label that is variable in size that contains the actual description (_descriptionLabel) a constraint from the top of the cell to the heading (_descriptionHeadingLabelTopConstraint). I also added 3 to space out the bottom a little bit (about the same amount apple places on the subtitle type cell.)

- (CGFloat)calculateHeight
{
    CGFloat width = _descriptionLabel.frame.size.width;
    NSAttributedString *attributedText = _descriptionLabel.attributedText;
    CGRect rect = [attributedText boundingRectWithSize:(CGSize){width, CGFLOAT_MAX} options: NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin context:nil];

    return rect.size.height + _descriptionHeadingLabel.frame.size.height + _descriptionHeadingLabelTopConstraint.constant + 3;
}

And in my Table View delegate:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;
{
    if (indexPath.row == 0) {
        UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"descriptionCell"];
        DescriptionCell *descriptionCell = (DescriptionCell *)cell;
        NSString *text = [_event objectForKey:@"description"];
        descriptionCell.descriptionLabel.text = text;

        return [descriptionCell calculateHeight];
    }

    return 44.0f;
}

You can change the if statement to be a little 'smarter' and actually get the cell identifier from some sort of data source. In my case the cells are going to be hard coded since there will be fixed amount of them in a specific order.