Question

I am looking at making a table view section that extends another section like the image. Although this is purely aesthetic if you know of an easy way of doing this I would like to know.

Answer 1

You different section can have different background image and different frames for the subviews.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"myCell"];
    if(cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"LOC_ID"];
        [cell autorelease];
    }
    if(indexPath.section == 0){
        if(indexPath.section == 0 && [self tableView:numberOfRowsInSection:0]-1 == indexPath.section){
            //put background image for last row in section 0
        } else {
            //backgroundimaes for all other cells in section0
        } else if(indexPath.section == 1) {
            //configure section 1 ibackgroundimages
        }
    }

    return cell;
}

setting background of an cell

cell.backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cell_bg.png" ]autorelease];  
cell.selectedBackgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cell_selected_bg.png"];