I want to be able to reorder tableview cells using a longPress gesture (not with the standard reorder controls). After the longPress is recognized I want the tableView to essent
You can't do it with the iOS SDK tools unless you want to throw together your own UITableView + Controller from scratch which requires a decent amount of work. You mentioned not relying on 3rd party solutions but my custom UITableView class can handle this nicely. Feel free to check it out:
https://github.com/bvogelzang/BVReorderTableView