Changing UITableView's section header/footer title without reloading the whole table view

Question

Is there any way to reload the section header/footer of a table view without calling [tableView reloadData];?

In fact, I want to show the number of cel

Answer 1

Here's another way to do it:

UITableViewHeaderFooterView *headerView=[self.tableView headerViewForSection:1];
CATransition *animation = [CATransition animation];
animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
animation.type = kCATransitionFade;
animation.duration = 0.35;
[headerView.textLabel.layer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"kCATransitionFade"];
headerView.textLabel.text=[self tableView:self.tableView titleForHeaderInSection:1];
[headerView.textLabel sizeToFit];

Answer 2

It worked for me to just reload the section with reloadSections on my table view

Answer 3

Here's a UITableView extension that's a handy shortcut for refreshing the tableView header/footer titles, based on some of the answers above (note the artificial uppercasing of the header title).

extension UITableView {

    func refreshHeaderTitle(inSection section: Int) {
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
        beginUpdates()

        let headerView = self.headerView(forSection: section)
        headerView?.textLabel?.text = self.dataSource?.tableView?(self, titleForHeaderInSection: section)?.uppercased()
        headerView?.sizeToFit()

        endUpdates()
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)
    }

    func refreshFooterTitle(inSection section: Int) {
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
        beginUpdates()

        let footerView = self.footerView(forSection: section)
        footerView?.textLabel?.text = self.dataSource?.tableView?(self, titleForFooterInSection: section)
        footerView?.sizeToFit()

        endUpdates()
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)
    }

    func refreshAllHeaderAndFooterTitles() {
        for section in 0..<self.numberOfSections {
            refreshHeaderTitle(inSection: section)
            refreshFooterTitle(inSection: section)
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

This is how you do it in Swift 3.0

tableView.beginUpdates()
tableView.headerView(forSection: indexPath.section)?.textLabel?.text = "Some text"
tableView.endUpdates()