Custom UITableView Dynamic Cell Height

Question

I have search and searched through endless blogs and articles on how to determine a dynamic height for a custom UITableViewCell and its detailed text. I have really had a hard t

Answer 1

Hey there so you are going to need to store the list of strings in an NSArray and then you are going to need to calculate the height of the nsstring using sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize: the documentation is found here http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/NSString_UIKit_Additions/Reference/Reference.html

so your tableView method should look something like

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSDictionary *stringAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIFont fontWithName:"Helvetica" size:9] forKey: NSFontAttributeName];

     CGSize cell_size = [string boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(300,999) 
                            options:NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine|NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin     
                            attributes:stringAttributes context:nil].size;
if (cell_size.height > 70)
{
return cell_size.height;
}
else 
{
return 70;
}
}

EDIT : THIS has been updated for iOS 7