Table View Stretch Header/ Parallax animation in Swift

We can use stretching header in our application.it becomes easier to create because by default iOS gives you the bouncy backs to table views and scroll views.Follow steps to create the stretcher header or we can say that parallax animation on table view header:-

• First, drag a table view From Storyboard to your View Controller.
• Then for table view header create Xib of UIView which will contain your table view header content like this:-

Create object of your header View and initialize header view xib from bundle

• Set table view estimation row height and assign header view to the table header view.
  
  profileTableView.estimatedRowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension profileTableView.tableHeaderView = headerView

  1 2	profileTableView.estimatedRowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension profileTableView.tableHeaderView = headerView

• Remove header from table header view and also set the table view contentInset according to the size you needed of header
  
  profileTableView.tableHeaderView = nil profileTableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: SCREEN_WIDTH/2, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0) profileTableView.addSubview(headerView!)

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  profileTableView.tableHeaderView = nil profileTableView.contentInset  = UIEdgeInsets(top: SCREEN_WIDTH/2, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0) profileTableView.addSubview(headerView!)

  
   
• Manage y origin of a header according to when the user scrolls the table view.
  
  func scrollViewDidEndScrollingAnimation(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) { self.profileTableView.reloadData() } func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) { if headerView != nil { let yPos: CGFloat = -scrollView.contentOffset.y if yPos > 0 { var imgRect: CGRect? = headerView?.frame imgRect?.origin.y = scrollView.contentOffset.y imgRect?.size.height = SCREEN_WIDTH/2 + yPos - SCREEN_WIDTH/2 headerView?.frame = imgRect! self.profileTableView.sectionHeaderHeight = (imgRect?.size.height)! } } }

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  func scrollViewDidEndScrollingAnimation(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {         self.profileTableView.reloadData()     }               func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {                if headerView != nil {         let yPos: CGFloat = -scrollView.contentOffset.y                        if yPos > 0 {                 var imgRect: CGRect? = headerView?.frame                 imgRect?.origin.y = scrollView.contentOffset.y                 imgRect?.size.height = SCREEN_WIDTH/2 + yPos  - SCREEN_WIDTH/2                 headerView?.frame = imgRect!                 self.profileTableView.sectionHeaderHeight = (imgRect?.size.height)!                            }         }     }

  
  You can also add the blur effect to the header of the table view
  
  func blur(){ let blurEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffectStyle.light) let blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: blurEffect) blurEffectView.frame = (headerView?.bannerImage.bounds)! blurEffectView.alpha = 0.9 blurEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight] headerView?.bannerImage!.addSubview(blurEffectView) }

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  func blur(){         let blurEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffectStyle.light)         let blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: blurEffect)         blurEffectView.frame = (headerView?.bannerImage.bounds)!         blurEffectView.alpha = 0.9         blurEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]         headerView?.bannerImage!.addSubview(blurEffectView)     }

  
  You can call this method in view did load of controller

   

  So you have successfully added a stretchy header in your app.

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