UITableView: the proper way to display a separator for the last cell

Question

The question is what\'s the right-most way to display a separator in the last cell in a table/section.

Basically this is what I am after.

Answer 1

When you add headerView or footerView to your TableView, last separator line will disappear.

Example below will let you make workaround for showing separator on the last cell. The only thing you have to implement more is to make this separator disappearing after selecting cell, so behavior is the same like in the rest of cells.

For Swift 4.0

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, viewForFooterInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {

    let result = UIView()

    // recreate insets from existing ones in the table view
    let insets = tableView.separatorInset
    let width = tableView.bounds.width - insets.left - insets.right
    let sepFrame = CGRect(x: insets.left, y: -0.5, width: width, height: 0.5)

    // create layer with separator, setting color
    let sep = CALayer()
    sep.frame = sepFrame
    sep.backgroundColor = tableView.separatorColor?.cgColor
    result.layer.addSublayer(sep)

    return result
}