Add rows to the beginning of a tableview without animation - ios

Question

I want to add rows to a tableview with begin/endUpdates to prevent the jump of the tableview when i do reloadData
this is my code
- (void)updateTableWithNewRowCount:(NSInteger)rowCount
andNewData:(NSArray *)newData {
// Save the tableview content offset
CGPoint tableViewOffset = [self.messagesTableView contentOffset];
// Turn of animations for the update block
// to get the effect of adding rows on top of TableView
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
[self.messagesTableView beginUpdates];
NSMutableArray *rowsInsertIndexPath = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
int heightForNewRows = 0;
for (NSInteger i = 0; i < rowCount; i++) {
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:i inSection:0];
[rowsInsertIndexPath addObject:tempIndexPath];
// [self.messages insertObject:[newData objectAtIndex:i] atIndex:i];
[self addMessage:[newData objectAtIndex:i]];
heightForNewRows =
heightForNewRows + [self heightForCellAtIndexPath:tempIndexPath];
}
[self.messagesTableView insertRowsAtIndexPaths:rowsInsertIndexPath
withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone];
tableViewOffset.y += heightForNewRows;
[self.messagesTableView endUpdates];
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];
[self.messagesTableView setContentOffset:tableViewOffset animated:NO];
}
And sometimes (not everytime) I get this error
invalid number of rows in section 0.
The number of rows contained in an existing section after
the update (2) must be equal to the number of rows contained in that section
before the update (2), plus or minus the number of rows inserted or deleted
from that section (2 inserted, 0 deleted) and plus or minus the number of
rows moved into or out of that section (0 moved in, 0 moved out).
How do i prevent this error ?

Answer 1

if you dont want animation then use directly
- (void)updateTableWithNewRowCount:(NSInteger)rowCount
andNewData:(NSArray *)newData {
// Save the tableview content offset
CGPoint tableViewOffset = [self.messagesTableView contentOffset];
// Turn of animations for the update block
// to get the effect of adding rows on top of TableView
NSMutableArray *rowsInsertIndexPath = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
int heightForNewRows = 0;
for (NSInteger i = 0; i < rowCount; i++) {
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:i inSection:0];
[rowsInsertIndexPath addObject:tempIndexPath];
// [self.messages insertObject:[newData objectAtIndex:i] atIndex:i];
[self addMessage:[newData objectAtIndex:i]];
heightForNewRows =
heightForNewRows + [self heightForCellAtIndexPath:tempIndexPath];
}
tableViewOffset.y += heightForNewRows;
[self.messagesTableView reloadData];
[self.messagesTableView setContentOffset:tableViewOffset animated:NO];
}

Answer 2

If you want to quickly jump to a selected indexPath (with or without animation), you can use this function:
//My function to populate
//tableView is synthesized
-(void)setNewMessage:(NSString*)message{
// ...
NSIndexPath *selectedIndexPath = [tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
// if your selectedIndexPath==nil, the table scroll stay in the same position
[self reloadData:selectedIndexPath animated:NO];
}
//My reload data wrapper
-(void)reloadData:(NSIndexPath *)selectedIndexPath animated:(BOOL)animated{
[tableView reloadData];
// atScrollPosition can receive different parameters (eg:UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle)
[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:selectedIndexPath
atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop
animated:animated];
}
Once I needed that same flexibility in a tableView and this function has met my needs. You don`t need the "setAnimationsEnabled", just use:
[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:nil
atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone
animated:NO];
];
I hope it helped.

Answer 3

Try this, I am not sure whether this will work or not.
- (void)updateTableWithNewRowCount:(NSInteger)rowCount
andNewData:(NSArray *)newData {
// Save the tableview content offset
CGPoint tableViewOffset = [self.messagesTableView contentOffset];
// Turn of animations for the update block
// to get the effect of adding rows on top of TableView
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
NSMutableArray *rowsInsertIndexPath = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
int heightForNewRows = 0;
for (NSInteger i = 0; i < rowCount; i++) {
NSIndexPath *tempIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:i inSection:0];
[rowsInsertIndexPath addObject:tempIndexPath];
// [self.messages insertObject:[newData objectAtIndex:i] atIndex:i];
[self addMessage:[newData objectAtIndex:i]];
heightForNewRows = heightForNewRows + [self heightForCellAtIndexPath:tempIndexPath];
}
tableViewOffset.y += heightForNewRows;
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];
[self.messagesTableView setContentOffset:tableViewOffset animated:NO];
double delayInSeconds = 1.0;
dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC);
dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
[self.messagesTableView beginUpdates];
[self.messagesTableView insertRowsAtIndexPaths:rowsInsertIndexPath
withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone];
[self.messagesTableView endUpdates];
});
}
Note: You might require to update rowsInsertIndexPath reference to use inside the block (__block type).