How to center a subview of UIView

Question

I have a UIView inside a UIViewm and I want the inner UIView to be always centered inside the outer one, without it having to resize t

Answer 1

func callAlertView() {

    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0, animations: {
        let H = self.view.frame.height * 0.4
        let W = self.view.frame.width * 0.9
        let X = self.view.bounds.midX - (W/2)
        let Y = self.view.bounds.midY - (H/2)
        self.alertView.frame = CGRect(x:X, y: Y, width: W, height: H)
        self.alertView.layer.borderWidth = 1
        self.alertView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
        self.alertView.layer.cornerRadius = 16
        self.alertView.layer.masksToBounds = true
        self.view.addSubview(self.alertView)

    })


}// calculation works adjust H and W according to your requirement

Answer 2

Set this autoresizing mask to your inner view.

Answer 3

Objective-C

yourSubView.center = CGPointMake(yourView.frame.size.width  / 2, 
                                 yourView.frame.size.height / 2);

Swift

yourSubView.center = CGPoint(x: yourView.frame.size.width  / 2,
                             y: yourView.frame.size.height / 2)

Answer 4

1. If you have autolayout enabled:

• Hint: For centering a view on another view with autolayout you can use same code for any two views sharing at least one parent view.

First of all disable child views autoresizing

UIView *view1, *view2;
[childview setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];

1. If you are UIView+Autolayout or Purelayout:

   [view1 autoAlignAxis:ALAxisHorizontal toSameAxisOfView:view2];
   [view1 autoAlignAxis:ALAxisVertical toSameAxisOfView:view2];
   

2. If you are using only UIKit level autolayout methods:

   [view1 addConstraints:({
       @[ [NSLayoutConstraint
          constraintWithItem:view1
          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterX
          relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
          toItem:view2
          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterX
          multiplier:1.f constant:0.f],
   
          [NSLayoutConstraint
           constraintWithItem:view1
           attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterY
           relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
           toItem:view2
           attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterY
           multiplier:1.f constant:0.f] ];
   })];
   

2. Without autolayout:

I prefer:

UIView *parentView, *childView;
[childView setFrame:({
    CGRect frame = childView.frame;

    frame.origin.x = (parentView.frame.size.width - frame.size.width) / 2.0;
    frame.origin.y = (parentView.frame.size.height - frame.size.height) / 2.0;

    CGRectIntegral(frame);
})];

Answer 5

In c# or Xamarin.ios, we can use like this

imageView.Center = new CGPoint(tempView.Frame.Size.Width / 2, tempView.Frame.Size.Height / 2);

Answer 6

With IOS9 you can use the layout anchor API.

The code would look like this:

childview.centerXAnchor.constraintEqualToAnchor(parentView.centerXAnchor).active = true
childview.centerYAnchor.constraintEqualToAnchor(parentView.centerYAnchor).active = true

The advantage of this over CGPointMake or CGRect is that with those methods you are setting the center of the view to a constant but with this technique you are setting a relationship between the two views that will hold forever, no matter how the parentview changes.

Just be sure before you do this to do:

        self.view.addSubview(parentView)
        self.view.addSubView(chidview)

and to set the translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints for each view to false.

This will prevent crashing and AutoLayout from interfering.