Animation issue when deleting the last row of UITableView

Question

UPDATE: This is now fixed in iOS 8.0 and above. See my accepted answer for details.

I have an iOS 7 UITableView that I allow swipe-to-delete on rows. I\'m handling delet

Answer 1

As an alternative to the keep-an-empty-row trick mentioned by Frank Li, I've gotten around this ugly glitch by simply special-casing the deletion of the last row: Instead of animating the cell away, simply call -reloadData on the table view.

You won't get any animation, but you also won't see the glitch so your table view won't look broken. A worthwhile tradeoff.