How to make a custom drawn UITableViewCell resize properly?

Question

For performance reasons, I draw the strings for my UITableViewCell in a custom view that overrides its drawRect method to draw strings directly in the view rectangle using NSStr

Answer 1

Try setting the contentMode of your own custom view (which resides inside the cell's contentView) to UIViewContentModeLeft. The "squeezing" is due to the fact that the default contentMode is UIViewContentModeScaleToFill.