Question

I wanna add a UITableView to UITableViewCell dynamically, when i click on the UITableViewCell, it will change it’s height and display a UITableView inside it, and when i click on the UITableViewCell again, it will hide the UITableView.

To do that, i did the following:

1. Create a custom UITableViewCell with a nib file.
2. Load it to the main UITableView with adjusting the information i wanna display it before expanding it.
3. Implement the - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath to handel the selected UITableViewCell.
4. Initiate the second UITableView (it’s a UITableViewController, created it with a nib file), resize the selected UITableViewCell to fit the new size (expand it’s size).
5. Adding the UITableView using [selectedCell.contentView addSubview:desc.view];
6. Reload the main UITableView.

BUT, it didn’t work, all i’ve got is an empty space with a correct size. i’ve used [tableView addSubview:desc.view]; but it’s add the UITableView inside the main UITableView, not inside the selected cell.

Note: the added UITableView is not scrollable and when i click on one of it’s cell it will navigate me to another view.

Any hint will be appreciated.
thx in advance.

Answer 1

Like sosborn said, i used a UITableView instead of UITableViewController and added the new table view in

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

cause i was calling the [tableView reloadData] every time the user select a cell.