This class enables animated hide/show of static cells and sections (created in IB, using the option Content : Static cells) for UITableView

This method doesn't use the hacky solution with setting height to 0 and allows you to animate the change and hide whole sections

• Animations on cells and sections
• Change height / Resize cells
• Not using the hacky solution with height 0
• Hide empty sections
• Control section header, footer visibility for empty sections

Demo app Created with Vernissage app

To integrate StaticDataTableViewController into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

  pod 'StaticDataTableViewController'

Subclass your UITableViewController with the StaticDataTableViewController

#import "StaticDataTableViewController.h"

@interface DemoTableViewController : StaticDataTableViewController

@end

Always use this method for table view reload

- (void)reloadDataAnimated:(BOOL)animated) 

don't call [self.tableView reloadData]

To hide/show specific cells, to which you have an outlet or an outlet collection

[self cell:self.outletToMyStaticCell1 setHidden:YES];
[self cell:self.outletToMyStaticCell2 setHidden:NO];
[self cells:self.outletToManyCells setHidden:YES];
[self reloadDataAnimated:YES];

• if you want to hide the whole section, just create a IBOutletCollection to all its cell, and then use [self cells:setHidden:]

To change height of specific cells, to which you have an outlet or an outlet collection

[self cell:self.outletToMyStaticCell1 setHeight:44];
[self cell:self.outletToMyStaticCell2 setHeight:44];
[self cells:self.outletToManyCells setHeight:200];
[self reloadDataAnimated:YES];

to customize animations, just set these properties to desired values

self.insertTableViewRowAnimation = UITableViewRowAnimationRight;
self.deleteTableViewRowAnimation = UITableViewRowAnimationLeft;
self.reloadTableViewRowAnimation = UITableViewRowAnimationMiddle;

or call reloadDataAnimated:insertAnimation:reloadAnimation:deleteAnimation: with desired animation values

to control if the footer or header should be displayed, overwrite these methods in your subclass

- (BOOL)showHeaderForSection:(NSInteger)section vissibleRows:(NSInteger)vissibleRows;
- (BOOL)showFooterForSection:(NSInteger)section vissibleRows:(NSInteger)vissibleRows;

• Create outlets to UITableViewsCells, not their content views!

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