How do I put a button inside a tableview cell? - ios

Question

I'm new to this, so I have troubles doing that. My goal is too put, like the title said, a button inside a cell. If you want to see my code, so that this could help you to answer this question, here is the code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Foundation;
using UIKit;
namespace TableView
{
public class TableSource : UITableViewSource
{
string[] tableItems;
string cellIdentifier = "TableCell";
public TableSource (string[] items)
{
tableItems = items;
}
public override nint RowsInSection(UITableView tableview, nint section)
{
return tableItems.Length;
}
public override void RowSelected(UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
new UIAlertView("Alert", "You selected: " + tableItems[indexPath.Row], null, "Next Site", null).Show();
tableView.DeselectRow(indexPath, true);
}
public override UITableViewCell GetCell(UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
UITableViewCell cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell(cellIdentifier);
if (cell == null)
cell = new UITableViewCell(UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, cellIdentifier);
cell.TextLabel.Text = tableItems[indexPath.Row];
if(indexPath.Row > -1)
cell.DetailTextLabel.Text = tableItems[indexPath.Row - 0];
return cell;
}
}
}
Here is the code for ViewController, if this is needed to.

Answer 1

Create a custom TableViewCell and add the button there. Than use that custom TableViewCell in your GetCell method.
class MyButtonTableViewCell : UITableViewCell
{
public UIButton MyButton { get; private set; }
public MyButtonTableViewCell() : base(UITableViewCellStyle.Default, "MyButtonCell")
{
MyButton = new UIButton(UIButtonType.System);
MyButton.Frame = ContentView.Bounds;
MyButton.SetTitle("My Title", UIControlState.Normal);
ContentView.AddSubview(MyButton);
}
}
public override UITableViewCell GetCell(UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
UITableViewCell cell = tableView.DequeueReusableCell("MyButtonCell");
if (cell == null)
cell = MyButtonTableViewCell();
return cell;
}

Answer 2

First of all you need to add a tag to the button so that you can see what button is being pressed inside the cellForRowAtIndexPath function like this:
cell.Button.tag = indexPath.row
Then inside an IBAction you can see exactly what row's button was pressed like this:
#IBAction func buttonPressed(sender: AnyObject)
{
let button = sender as! UIButton
let index = NSIndexPath(forRow: button.tag, inSection: 0)
}