Why can't I call reloadData AND deselectRowAtIndexPath in viewWillAppear:animated at the same time?

Question

I have a UITableView with cells that push viewControllers onto the stack when selected. The child viewControllers take user input and then pops off the stack.

When the c

Answer 1

When you reload a cell, it automatically gets deselected. That's because you don't set a cell's selected property to YES in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:. So you will have to deal with this differently. Either identify that the cell at indexPath needs to be selected and appropriately set its selected property to YES in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: or select it after you reload the data. In such case, you can execute the following methods –

[self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath]
                      withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone];

[self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath 
                            animated:NO
                      scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];

[self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];

The order of steps are :-

1. Reload the row without any animation.
2. Select the row without animation.
3. Deselect the row with animation.

This way I think you can get the effect you want.