Programmatically Create Static TableView / Cells - ios

Question

I have a UITableView, which as an example contains dynamic cells I create based on the content of an array.
I can populate these using the count of the array and indexPath to render a cell per item. I am happy with this and it works well.
I would like to try now and create static cells programmatically.
Immediately however I am stumped, how do I create this? I'm currently overriding numberOfRowsInSection and cellForRowAt indexPath as follows:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return items.count
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellID", for: indexPath) as! ProfileCell
cell.rowContent.text = items[indexPath.row]
return cell
}
I suspect my first mistake is dequeueReusableCell and would really appreciate any help.

Answer 1

If I understood your question, you want to add a static cell in a tableView that contains dynamic cells.
If that is the case, you could hardcode this, increasing the return value here:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return items.count+1
}
In this case, you want to add just one static cell.
In cellForRowAtIndexPath, you should define where you want to add this static cell. In the example below, it would be the first cell:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
if indexPath.row == 0 {
//should change StaticCell to the static cell class you want to use.
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "staticCell", for: indexPath) as! StaticCell
//hardcore attributes here, like cell.rowContent.text = "A text"
return cell
}
let row = indexPath.row-1
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellID", for: indexPath) as! ProfileCell
cell.rowContent.text = items[row]
return cell
}
It's basically about shifting the items[row] according to the number of static cells you want to use.
I'm not sure if that will work, but would be my first guess (according to my experience about that). Try this and tell me if it worked :)