Hide cells in a UITableView with static cells - and no autolayout crash

Question

I have a table view form created using Static Cells in IB/Storyboard. However, I need to hide some of the cells at runtime depending on certain conditions.

I have fo

Answer 1

I found the best way to do this is to simply handle the numberOfRowsInSection, cellForRowAtIndexPath and heightForRowAtIndexPath to selectively drop certain rows. Here's a 'hardcoded' example for my scenario, you could do something a little smarter to intelligently remove certain cells rather than hard code it like this, but this was easiest for my simple scenario.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [super tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if (indexPath.section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        cell = self.cellIWantToShow;
    }
    return cell;
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    CGFloat height = [super tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if (indexPath.section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        height = [super tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:2 inSection:0]];
    }
    return height;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    NSInteger count = [super tableView:tableView numberOfRowsInSection:section];

    if (section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        count -= hiddenCells.count;
    }

    return count;
}