If UITextView is first sub-view then a big space will appear between the top of the view and the start of the text

Question

It appears that like in native Xcode, in Xamarin studio for ioS if your first sub-view in a view hierarchy is a UITextView, then adding a top-layout constraint to this view will cause a large block of empty space to appear at the top of the scroll view.

This is similar to the Xcode version of the question here

iOS 7 UITextView vertical alignment

Answer 1

I solved this programmatically by adapting

Tanguy-G's answer for native Objective-C by setting AutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets to false in the constructor of my view controller.

    public MyLovelyViewController (IntPtr handle) : base (handle)
    {
        this.AutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false;
    }

EDIT: If you are setting any other aspects of the text view in question programmatically, make sure to call

this.AutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false;

after any other adjustments, otherwise the space will reappear, e.g:

    confirmSummary.Editable = false;
    confirmSummary.Selectable = false;
    this.AutomaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false;

(I did this in the override of ViewDidLoad)