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iOS

Posted by Junaid Abdurahman
Junaid Abdurahman
Courses Plus Student 108 Points

UITableView - Is it possible to have spaces between each cell?

When using UITableView is it possible to have small gaps/spaces to separate the cells? (Just to make the UI look less 'busy') Language- Swift

1 Answer

Manuel Schulze
Manuel Schulze
12,739 Points
Manuel Schulze
Manuel Schulze
12,739 Points

Ok this is not done that easily and I still don't like my solution. Anyway here is some working code but if I find something better I will tell you. One short side note: If you go the following way better subclass UICell and do the stuff of viewWillDisplayCell there. You'll want to delete the separators on your tableview.

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat {
        return 80.0;
}

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

        cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
        var whiteRoundedView : UIView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 10, self.view.frame.size.width, 70))
        whiteRoundedView.layer.backgroundColor = CGColorCreate(CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(), [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0])
        whiteRoundedView.layer.masksToBounds = false
        whiteRoundedView.layer.cornerRadius = 3.0
        whiteRoundedView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(-1, 1)
        whiteRoundedView.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
        cell.contentView.addSubview(whiteRoundedView)
        cell.contentView.sendSubviewToBack(whiteRoundedView)
}

I hope this will help you even a little. As I mentioned before I'm searching for a better solution.