Show custom label when no data available for tableView

Question

The app in question has an ability for users to mark items as favourite. When the user has no favourites saved, I\'d like to notify them of the fact (mostly I hate the idea of

Answer 1

What I personally would do is the following. As you said yourself, in the method numberOfRowsInSection you should check the count of your tableView datasource, if its 0 you should return 1 in order to display the 1 cell ou want.

Then in cellForRowAtIndexPath you should check the count again, if it returns 0 you know that the table view is trying to draw your "You currently have no favorites" and you can set the text.