UITableView: changing footer view's size programmatically doesn't work

Question

My table view\'s footer is a view that shows some tweets from a user, so I do not know its height until I got the tweets, I created a FooterViewController that has

Answer 1

In order to change the frame of footer view here is the simple tweak:-

In Swift:-

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForFooterInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return 0.5
}


func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, viewForFooterInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {
    let footerView = UIView()
    let footerChildView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 60, y: 0, width: tableView.frame.width - 60, height: 0.5))
    footerChildView.backgroundColor = UIColor.darkGray
    footerView.addSubview(footerChildView)
    return footerView
}

Answer 2

myTable.tableFooterView = myFooterView;

Re-assign your footer view to the table. The table will recognize it has a new footer and re-do whatever layout needs to occur for the proper size of the footer.