Not Enough Cell to Use in UITableView - ios

Question

I have created a UITableView in Storyboard and it is dynamically cell. The problem is that when there are not enough cells to reuse, it randomly empties a few of my cells. I think this is logical, but I want to resolve this problem.
I give an example:
I have a UITableView that is capable to generate 10 cells in a view. But now, I only want to show 8 cells out of 10. It gives no problem when I have only a section. With more than 1 section, it will always empty 2 cells and show 8 cells, but it should show 10 cells.
Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.
Updated With Source code
#pragma mark - List View
#pragma mark - Table View Delegate
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
return 2;
}
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection: (NSInteger)section {
// Number of rows is the number of time zones in the region for the specified section.
return self.listCollection.count;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"ListCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
for (id object in cell.contentView.subviews) {
[object removeFromSuperview];
}
[cell.contentView addSubview:[self.listCollection objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}
self.listCollection has an array of UIView Object.
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Answer 1

It is happening because you are using 2 sections but are not specifying the content for each section separately. To understand this we need to look into the description of addSubview: method from Apple Documentation
This method establishes a strong reference to view and sets its next responder to the receiver, which is its new superview.
Views can have only one superview. If view already has a superview and that view is not the receiver, this method removes the previous superview before making the receiver its new superview.
Have a good look at bold section in second paragraph. As you are using the same view object from listCollection to populate both the section, so newest created cell will become the superview for this view object and previous cell will be left out with nothing but the plane contentView. You can get the real feel by assigning some default color to the cell contentView. Your blank cell will be displaying the color in full content while other cells will display the view
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
Solution
I will recommend to use 2 different datasource for both sections as explained below.
-(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection: (NSInteger)section {
// Number of rows is the number of time zones in the region for the specified section.
if(section==0)
return self.listCollection.count;
else
return <row count for section 1>
}
Same way you need to modify the cellForRowAtIndexPath: code for each section.
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"ListCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
for (id object in cell.contentView.subviews) {
[object removeFromSuperview];
}
if(section==0)
[cell.contentView addSubview:[self.listCollection objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
else
[cell.contentView addSubview:[<second array of views> objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}
But if that is your case that you have to use same array, then you can use this technique. Thanks to Rishi for that.
Last but not least, you should use a custom UITableViewCell class as Michal Zygar has suggested in his post.
UIView *tempView = [self.listCollection objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
NSData *tempArchiveView = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:tempView];
UIView *viewOfSelf = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:tempArchiveView];
[cell.contentView addSubview:viewOfSelf];

Answer 2

You are using the UITableView wrong way.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"ListCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
for (id object in cell.contentView.subviews) {
[object removeFromSuperview];
}
[cell.contentView addSubview:[self.listCollection objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
return cell;
}
This is highly inapriopriate. Your listCollection should contain model data. In - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath you should configure the cell with this data.
So you should subclass the UITableViewCell for example
#interface ApartmentCell:UITableViewCell
#property (weak, nonatomic) UILabel* floor;
#property (weak, nonatomic) UILabel* unit;
#property (weak, nonatomic) UILabel* type;
#property (weak, nonatomic) UILabel* area;
#property (weak, nonatomic) UILabel* price;
#end
and then
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
ApartmentCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"ListCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
Apartment* apartment=self.listCollection[indexPath.row];
cell.unit.text=apartment.unit;
//and so on with other fields
return cell;
}