UITableView load more when scrolling to bottom like Facebook application

Question

I am developing an application that uses SQLite. I want to show a list of users (UITableView) using a paginating mechanism. Could any one please tell me how to load more dat

Answer 1

you should check ios UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching.

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet weak var mytableview: UITableView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        mytableview.prefetchDataSource = self
    }

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, prefetchRowsAt indexPaths: [IndexPath]) {
        print("prefetchdRowsAtIndexpath \(indexPaths)")
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cancelPrefetchingForRowsAt indexPaths: [IndexPath]) {
        print("cancelPrefetchingForRowsAtIndexpath \(indexPaths)")
    }


}

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitableviewdatasourceprefetching https://andreygordeev.com/2017/02/20/uitableview-prefetching/

Answer 2

The best way to solve this problem is to add cell at the bottom of your table, and this cell will hold indicator.

In swift you need to add this:

1. Create new cell of type cellLoading this will hold the indicator. Look at the code below
2. Look at the num of rows and add 1 to it (This is for loading cell).
3. you need to check in the rawAtIndex if idexPath.row == yourArray.count then return Loading cell.

look at code below:

import UIKit

class LoadingCell: UITableViewCell {

@IBOutlet weak var indicator: UIActivityIndicatorView!


}

For table view : numOfRows:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return  yourArray.count + 1
}

cellForRawAt indexPath:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    if indexPath.row == users.count  {
        // need to change
        let loading = Bundle.main.loadNibNamed("LoadingCell", owner: LoadingCell.self , options: nil)?.first as! LoadingCell
        return loading

    }

    let yourCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellCustomizing", for: indexPath) as! UITableViewCell

    return yourCell

}

If you notice that my loading cell is created from a nib file. This videos will explain what I did.

Answer 3

Below link will provide sample code. #Swift3

User need to pull up last table view cell, at least hight of 2 cell to fetch more data from server.

You will found Process cell also to show loading process as in last cell.

Its in Swift3

https://github.com/yogendrabagoriya/YBTableViewPullData

Answer 4

For Xcode 10.1, Swift 4.2

This video seems like a great tutorial!

Starter/Complete project: https://github.com/RobCanton/Swift-Infinite-Scrolling-Example

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

    var tableView:UITableView!

    var fetchingMore = false
    var items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
        initTableView()
    }

    func initTableView() {
        tableView = UITableView(frame: view.bounds, style: .plain)
        tableView.register(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "tableCell")
        tableView.delegate = self
        tableView.dataSource = self

        view.addSubview(tableView)
        tableView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        let layoutGuide = view.safeAreaLayoutGuide
        tableView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutGuide.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
        tableView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutGuide.topAnchor).isActive = true
        tableView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutGuide.trailingAnchor).isActive = true
        tableView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: layoutGuide.bottomAnchor).isActive = true

        tableView.reloadData()
    }
    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return items.count
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
            let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "tableCell", for: indexPath)
            cell.textLabel?.text = "Item \(items[indexPath.row])"
            return cell
    }

    func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
        let offsetY = scrollView.contentOffset.y
        let contentHeight = scrollView.contentSize.height

        if offsetY > contentHeight - scrollView.frame.height * 4 {
            if !fetchingMore {
                beginBatchFetch()
            }
        }
    }

    func beginBatchFetch() {
        fetchingMore = true
        print("Call API here..")
        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.50, execute: {
            print("Consider this as API response.")
            let newItems = (self.items.count...self.items.count + 12).map { index in index }
            self.items.append(contentsOf: newItems)
            self.fetchingMore = false
            self.tableView.reloadData()
        })
    }
}

Answer 5

One more option to use (Swift 3 and iOS 10+):

class DocumentEventsTableViewController: UITableViewController, UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching {

     var currentPage: Int = 1
     let pageSize: Int = 10 // num of items in one page

     override func viewDidLoad() {
         super.viewDidLoad()

         self.tableView.prefetchDataSource = self
     }

     func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, prefetchRowsAt indexPaths: [IndexPath]) {
         let upcomingRows = indexPaths.map { $0.row }

         if let maxIndex = upcomingRows.max() {

            let nextPage: Int = Int(ceil(Double(maxIndex) / Double(pageSize))) + 1

            if nextPage > currentPage {
                 // Your function, which attempts to load respective page from the local database
                 loadLocalData(page: nextPage)

                 // Your function, which makes a network request to fetch the respective page of data from the network
                 startLoadingDataFromNetwork(page: nextPage) 

                 currentPage = nextPage
             }
         }
     }
 }

For rather small pages (~ 10 items) you might want to manually add data for pages 1 and 2 because nextPage might be somewhere about 1-2 until the table has a few items to be scrolled well. But it will work great for all next pages.

Answer 6

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSInteger lastSectionIndex = [tableView numberOfSections] - 1;
    NSInteger lastRowIndex = [tableView numberOfRowsInSection:lastSectionIndex] - 1;
    if ((indexPath.section == lastSectionIndex) && (indexPath.row == lastRowIndex)) {
        // This is the last cell
        [self loadMore];
    }
}

If you are using Core Data and NSFetchedResultsController, then loadMore could look like the following:

// Load more
- (void)loadMore {
    [self.fetchedResultsController.fetchRequest setFetchLimit:newFetchLimit];
    [NSFetchedResultsController deleteCacheWithName:@"cache name"];
    NSError *error;
    if (![self.fetchedResultsController performFetch:&error]) {
        // Update to handle the error appropriately.
        NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
    }

    [self.tableView reloadData];
}