Empty UITableView still shows empty cells - ios

Question

I am making a Calendar app and I am showing the events from the Calendar in a UITableView.
I am using a tableFooterView to hide separator lines in a UITableView when the table is empty. I do this with the following code:
self.tableView.tableFooterView = [[UIView alloc] init];
UILabel *footerTableViewLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
footerTableViewLabel.text = #"No items.";
[self.tableView.tableFooterView addSubview:footerTableViewLabel];
If there are elements in the table, I hide this view, and if not I show it. This works fine if the calendar is initially empty. However, if I delete an event from Calendar.app while my app is still running in the background, when I go back to the app, all I see is a bunch of empty cells and separator, and no label saying "No items".
Any ideas?
EDIT: I show/hide the footer view using:
self.tableView.tableFooterView.hidden = NO/YES;
As far as events are considered, I do not offer the possibility to delete them directly from my app, I just detect when they are deleted from Calendar.app. Unfortunately, I cannot show the code doing this detection since it is part of a private library, however, this works fine, i.e. I jump to right parts of code when the event is deleted.

Answer 1

You can try this un your code to hide separators: self.tableView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;

Answer 2

Use self.tableView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone; to hide the separator lines. If you want the active tableview cells to have separators, you can always add a border to the bottom of each cell manually using a function like this:
- (void)addBottomBorderWithColor:(UIColor *)color andHeight:(CGFloat) borderHeight
{
CALayer *borderBottom = [CALayer layer];
borderBottom.backgroundColor = color.CGColor;
borderBottom.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.frame.size.height, self.frame.size.width, borderHeight);
[self.layer addSublayer:borderBottom];
}
** EDIT**
If you want to add a view that indicates 'no data', try adding this as a view underneath the tableview, then just set the tableview to hidden if there is no data present.
Hope this helps

Answer 3

So, I finally managed to figure this out. There were to issues:
For some reason (maybe when I do [self.tableView reloadData]), self.tableView.tableFooterView would become nil and that's why I could see empty cells. Reassigning the view to it fixed this issue.
I had to update the view constraints for the footer view and the label it contains.