Question

I want to be able to reorder tableview cells using a longPress gesture (not with the standard reorder controls). After the longPress is recognized I want the tableView to essentially enter ‘edit mode’ and then reorder as if I was using the reorder controls supplied by Apple.

Is there a way to do this without needing to rely on 3rd party solutions?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I ended up using the solution that was in the accepted answer and relied on a 3rd party solution.

Answer 1

So essentially you want the “Clear”-like row reordering right? (around 0:15)

This SO post might help.

Unfortunately I don’t think you can do it with the present iOS SDK tools short of hacking together a UITableView + Controller from scratch (you’d need to create each row itself and have a UITouch respond relevant to the CGRect of your row-to-move).

It’d be pretty complicated since you need to get the animation of the rows “getting out of the way” as you move the row-to-be-reordered around.

The cocoas tool looks promising though, at least go take a look at the source.