Question

I have a UITableView where I can add a new item with a touch of a button. I would like to highlight this newly added item. Since UITableView is data-driven and cells are recycled, the only way I can think of so far to mark this newly added item is to add a BOOL flag in the data itself, then highlight the cell and negate the flag on first encounter.

Is there another way of doing this without having to contaminate the data source?

Answer 1

My first thoughts..

1. Create an Integer [myObjectArray count];
2. When you add the new object you can reload table
3. Create a new integer [myObjectArray count];
4. Compare the two integers when table reloads. If the 1st int is less than the new int
   then you obviously have added another object.
5. When creating cell check if the cell indexpath.row is equal to the last object count in your array, if it is then you can fill the cell background with another color.

Hope that makes sense?