Question

I’m stuck with the problem that I want to know in my UITableView if a specific UITableViewCell, let’s say the first, is still visible or already off the visible area.
I would also be ok to know if the cell of interest is now beeing reused at an other indexPath of the table.

One of my – later and frustrated approaches – was to have a thread that knows the first cell object and frequently pings it to check if a value I did set in the cell changed. Obviously a not so good solution.

Andy ideas how to do this right?

Answer 1

Remember that UITableView is UIScrollView subclass and its delegate also confirms to UIScrollViewDelegate protocol as well.

So in your table delegate you can implement scrollViewDidScroll: method and check contentOffset – if it’s more then first cell height then first cell is not visible. You can also get the array off all currently visible cells using -visibleCells method, but I think knowing contentOffset should be enough.