UITableViewCell not resizing for UIView subview - ios

I added this library called KSTokenView which is a tokenizer like NSTokenField. This UIView subclass was added to the UITableViewCell. Connections were made with all the 4 sides of this UIView to the content view. Now as I type into the view and the size changes, there is a delegate method for change of frame.
Using the frame change for that, I need to resize my tableviewcell and in turn the tableview also.
In the view controller for the table view, I am giving an estimated row height of UITableViewAutomaticDimension. I am currently doing tableView.beginUpdates and tableView.endUpdates on change of frame.
What is the correct way?

I think changing the frame is not the right way to do it (if you're using autolayout). You can set a height constraint to your view and update its constant instead, in the same place you update the frame.
Update
I am giving an estimated row height of UITableViewAutomaticDimension
You shouldn't set estimatedRowHeight to be UITableViewAutomaticDimension. It should be an estimated average number of your cell height and rowHeight should be UITableViewAutomaticDimension.

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UITableView embedded in view not sizing accordingly

I am trying to add table view that is contained into a view, this view has a width constraint and the height of the view will be dictated by the content height of the table view. However, I am unable to get this to work.
My attempt:
I create a view with a leading, top and width constraint. Then I insert a table view inside this view, this table view will have a leading, top, bottom and trailing constraint to the view (it's superview). I also set the row height and the estimate. When running the code, numberOfRowsInSection gets called but cellForRowAt does not, my guess is because the height didn't solve properly and the table has a height of 0. How can I fix this?
Thanks.
luis,
UITableView inherits from UIScrollView. So You cant expect the tableView to provide the height for its superView. In fact its vice versa.
TableView's frame will be decided by the superView's frame where as the tableView's contentSize will be decided by the data that you have provided.
So your best bets
Solution 1:
Add a height constraint to the View (SuperView) and create a IBOutlet to it in your VC.
Set the height for each cell in tableView lets say as 50.
Once you get the data to show in tableView before calling reloadData() on tableView set the constant of View's height constraint as
viewsHeightConstraint.constant = (numberOfRows) * 50;
yourView.layoutIfNeeded()
Solution 2:
If you are planning to use automatic height for cell then set the height of view based on the ContentSize of tableView. But to do that you have to get the data first, reload the tableView with the data and once done now get the content size of TableView and set the frame of your view accordingly.

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I've got a UITableViewCell subclass that has two labels of variable height. AFAIK, the autolayout constraints are correct. The first time the cell is rendered in the table it's correct, but any subsequent rendering is blown out too tall. Even after the parent view controller is deallocated! It literally requires an app restart to go back to normal.
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// viewDidLoad
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