Hide empty cells in UITableView

Question

I have a searchable tableview, but would like to only display the number of cells that are returned once a user starts a search. For instance, if a user types in a charecter

Answer 1

Change your implementation of tableView:numberOfRowsInSection: in your data source to return the number of search results instead of the total number of items. Then populate those cells with the search results instead of with the rest of the data.