How can I make the footerview always stay at the bottom in UITableViewController?

Question

I am using a UITableviewcontroller and I want the footer view to always stay at the bottom of the screen. However, the y

Answer 1

You cannot use a UITableViewController, but it's not necessary anyway. You can easily add a UITableView to a regular UIViewController, and just use auto layout to add a UIView below the UITableView. Here's a simple example, adding a red UIView below the UITableView:

import UIKit

class MyFooterTableViewController: UIViewController {

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
    }

    var data = [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine", "Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve"]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.tableView.dataSource = self
    } 

    @IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!

}

extension MyFooterTableViewController: UITableViewDataSource {
    // MARK: - Table view data source

    func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return data.count
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TableCellTest", for: indexPath)

        cell.textLabel?.text = data[indexPath.row]
        cell.detailTextLabel?.text = "BANANA"
        return cell
    }
}

The constraints on the Storyboard look like this:

The end result is this:

Full project code is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pyp42nzumquompp/TableViewFooter.zip?dl=0