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
Sure there's a way. Call the method, setEditing:animated:, in your gesture recognizer code, that will put the table view into edit mode. Look up "Managing the Reordering of Rows" in the apple docs to get more information on moving rows.