How get UITableView IndexPath from UITableView iphone?

Question

In my iPhone app I have one messaging screen. I have added UITapGestureRecognizer on the UIViewController and also I have a UITableview on

Answer 1

While I prefer Matt Meyer's suggestion or my other suggestion of using a custom gesture recognizer, another solution, not involving custom gesture recognizers, would be to have your tap gesture recognizer identify whether you tapped on a cell in your tableview, and if so, manually invoke didSelectRowAtIndexPath, e.g.:

- (void)handleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender
{
    CGPoint location = [sender locationInView:self.view];

    if (CGRectContainsPoint([self.view convertRect:self.tableView.frame fromView:self.tableView.superview], location))
    {
        CGPoint locationInTableview = [self.tableView convertPoint:location fromView:self.view];
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:locationInTableview];
        if (indexPath)
            [self tableView:self.tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

        return;
    }

    // otherwise proceed with the rest of your tap handling logic
}

This is suboptimal because if you're doing anything sophisticated with your tableview (e.g. in cell editing, custom controls, etc.), you lose that behavior, but if you're just looking to receive the didSelectRowAtIndexPath, then this might do the job. The other two approaches (separate views or the custom gesture recognizer) let you retain the full tableview functionality, but this could work if you just need something simple and you don't need the rest of the tableview's built-in capabilities.