Question

I want to delete rows in a UITableView, I need to provide the delete button not by swipe but in a way similar to delete messages functionality in iPhones. In which on clicking edit a small red circle appears on the left in the cell which rotates when clicked and the delete button is shown. How to implement this?

Like in the image below:

Answer 1

See the Apple documentation here for details on how to achieve this. In particular:

When sent a setEditing:animated: message (with a first parameter of
YES), the table view enters into editing mode where it shows the
editing or reordering controls of each visible row, depending on the
editingStyle of each associated UITableViewCell. Clicking on the
insertion or deletion control causes the data source to receive a
tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: message. You commit
a deletion or insertion by calling
deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:withRowAnimation: or
insertRowsAtIndexPaths:withRowAnimation:, as appropriate.