Objective C - Swipe to delete row - ios

I'm new to objective-c and gotten some legacy code for adding new features. My app needs that rows from a table are deleted by swiping then out. The implementation already support the ordering of rows.
I have already read previous questions UITableViewCell, show delete button on swipe and using swipe gesture to delete row on tableview. I don't want to show any button for deleting rows( nor the (-) (red left button) neither the DELETE button that is displayed on the right when clicking the (-) red left button ).
I have already defined the following methods:
- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSLog(#"editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath");
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSLog(#"canEditRowAtIndexPath");
return YES; // allow that row to swipe
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
NSLog(#"commitEditingStyle");
}
The behavior is that with this "configuration" the delete left red button is displayed. When it is clicked, it displays a DELETE button on the right of the row. Clicking on it run the commitEditingStyle delegate.
Removing the tableView:editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath make disappear the left red button and swipe does not work. Nor I manage to get execution in the commitEditingStyle delegate.
Any suggestion or ideas why the commitEditingStyle delegate is not invoked?

Just write code for deleting row in to
- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
I have checked and this works fine for me.
This will delete row on swipe without showing delete button. I hope this will solve your problem.

replace
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone
with
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete

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Would anyone have any idea what else I can do to understand why the delete button doesn't show ALWAYS?
Thanks.
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Is it possible to remove the rounded deletion indicator when editing a table view?

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But when i tap the edit button it looks like this:
And i want this edit button to use only for reordering.
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-(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}
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return YES;
}
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return YES;
}
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My app is build in a way that a user enters data inside a UITableView in UIViewcontroller A (one line of data or more) and can save it to disk. In the next UIViewController B he can see all the saved data.
I'm using this:
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return YES;
}
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To show a delete button on a cell with a swipe. How can I show an edit button on a single cell (that will appear the same way the delete button appears) next to delete button?
(the edit button will take the data back to the first UIViewController A for editing but that's not really relevant)
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how prevent cell width from expanding when done editing in UITableView

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For the record I am not trying to replicate the actual contacts app or integrate with contacts. We're working on something unrelated and my designer just wants to follow this pattern so doing some POC work to see what I can do.
EDIT - Another question, to verify my thinking, is that in the contacts app here what's happening is when the "+" icon is tapped, this cell is set to not editing any more, these text fields are added to the cell, the label changed, and then reloadData is called, right?
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{
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// tableView.editing = YES;
[self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:#[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
}
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Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
BOOL shouldShowInsertButton = ...;//check internal state for cell
return shouldShowInsertButton ? UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert : UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}
Then when the edit button is tapped, you update your internal state and reload the cell:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
...;//update internal state for cell
[self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:#[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
}
EDIT
Here's a working sample project.

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If not, I will probably achieve the 'add' icon using the cells imageView, but this seems hacky too.
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return YES;
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