Ios – Hide cells in a UITableView with static cells – and no autolayout crash

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I have a table view form created using Static Cells in IB/Storyboard. However, I need to hide some of the cells at runtime depending on certain conditions.

I have found a few 'answers; to this question on SO, e.g.

UITableView set to static cells. Is it possible to hide some of the cells programmatically?

.. and they focus on setting the height of the cell / row to 0. This is great, except I now get exceptions from AutoLayout because the constraints can't be satisfied. How do I get around this last problem? Can I temporarily disable Auto-Layout for a subview? Is there a better way to be doing this in iOS7?

Best Answer

I found the best way to do this is to simply handle the numberOfRowsInSection, cellForRowAtIndexPath and heightForRowAtIndexPath to selectively drop certain rows. Here's a 'hardcoded' example for my scenario, you could do something a little smarter to intelligently remove certain cells rather than hard code it like this, but this was easiest for my simple scenario.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [super tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if (indexPath.section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        cell = self.cellIWantToShow;
    }
    return cell;
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    CGFloat height = [super tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if (indexPath.section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        height = [super tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:2 inSection:0]];
    }
    return height;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    NSInteger count = [super tableView:tableView numberOfRowsInSection:section];

    if (section == 0 && hideStuff) {
        count -= hiddenCells.count;
    }

    return count;
}
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