How to resize UITextView on iOS when a keyboard appears?

The best result was reached by the following code. Also don’t forget to set background color to UIView and place UITextView before other top-screen controls (e.g. UITabBar).

Editing of a text in the end still isn’t perfect now. You may try to improve.

FirstViewController.h:

@interface FirstViewController : UIViewController {
    IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *buttonDone;
    IBOutlet UITextView *textView;
    UITabBarController* tabBarController; // set from superview in AppDelegate (MainWindow.xib)
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) UITabBarController* tabBarController;

FirstViewController.m:

@synthesize tabBarController;

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShown:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}

- (void)moveTextViewForKeyboard:(NSNotification*)aNotification up:(BOOL)up {
    NSDictionary* userInfo = [aNotification userInfo];
    NSTimeInterval animationDuration;
    UIViewAnimationCurve animationCurve;
    CGRect keyboardEndFrame;

    [[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] getValue:&animationCurve];
    [[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] getValue:&animationDuration];
    [[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] getValue:&keyboardEndFrame];

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:animationDuration];
    [UIView setAnimationCurve:animationCurve];

    CGRect newFrame = textView.frame;
    CGRect keyboardFrame = [self.view convertRect:keyboardEndFrame toView:nil];
    keyboardFrame.size.height -= tabBarController.tabBar.frame.size.height;
    newFrame.size.height -= keyboardFrame.size.height * (up?1:-1);
    textView.frame = newFrame;

    [UIView commitAnimations];   
}

- (void)keyboardWillShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
    buttonDone.enabled = true;
    [self moveTextViewForKeyboard:aNotification up:YES]; 
}

- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
    buttonDone.enabled = false;
    [self moveTextViewForKeyboard:aNotification up:NO]; 
}

P.S. It’s hard to code for iOS without stackoverflow…