UITableView bottom separator inset - Strange behaviour in IOS 7 - ios

Question

My app contains a UITableView which has section footers. When the user scrolls to the bottom of the tableView, sometimes a separator inset appears between the last cell and the tableFooter. This behaviour is inconsistent.
Is there a way to force this separator to always appear or never appear? Did any of you noticed this same inconsistent behaviour? Seems like a bug to me.
EDIT
I'm using
- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
UILabel *footer = [[UILabel alloc] init];
footer.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
footer.font = [footer.font fontWithSize:15];
footer.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
return footer;
}
but you could easily reproduce the same problem only using
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section;

Answer 1

To do this you'll have to override the standard UIView used as the footer.
You can do this by overriding the delegate method -(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section.
-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
UIView *myFooterView;
// create a view with a label and without a line at the top etc...
return myFooterView;
}

Answer 2

I am not sure why you are getting inconsistent results. Maybe try to add a background to your footer view. Here is my code:
-(UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
UIView *footerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 33)];
[footerView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor grayColor]];
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, footerView.bounds.size.width, 20)];
label.text = #"Footer";
[label setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
[footerView addSubview:label];
return footerView;
}
And here is the result:

Answer 3

This is a bit of a lazy way of doing it but it works none the less.
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"CellIdentifyer"];
if (indexPath.row == tableArray.count) {
cell.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;
}
return cell;
}

Answer 4

here is the solution, very easy!
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"CellIdentifyer"];
cell.separatorInset = (indexPath.row == totalNumber-1) ? UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, INT16_MAX, 0, 0) : UIEdgeInsetsZero;
return cell;
}

Answer 5

I found some workaround about it:
Whenever you expect this extra separator could appear (for example, when user scrolls to the bottom like you described) - add these lines of code:
tableView.separatorStyle = UITable​View​Cell​Separator​Style​None;
tableView.separatorStyle = UITable​View​Cell​Separator​Style​Single​Line;
The logic is something like that: first string of code removes bottom separator, and the second one doesn't add it. It worked for me in some cases, but it is not a 100% fix.
I guess, it might be an Apple bug also, as sometimes bottom separator disappears in their 'Reminders' app.