Expanding and Collapsing table view cells in ios

Question

I have a table view of custom cells and some buttons in each cell.Clicking on any of the button inside the cell will reveal another custom view below that cell.Next click on the same button will collapse the view and need this same for all cells.I tried with insertrow method on the button click but in vain.How can i do this with using only the table view delegates.

This is what i tried:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *simpleTableIdentifier = @"CustomCell_For_Dashboard";

    CustomCellFor_Dashboard  *customCell = (CustomCellFor_Dashboard *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
    if (customCell == nil)
    {
        NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomCellFor_Dashboard" owner:self options:nil];
        customCell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
    }
    [customCell.howyoulfeelBtn  addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonclicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
      customCell.nameLabel.text = @"test";
    customCell.imgView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Default.png"];
   // customCell.prepTimeLabel.text = [prepTime objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return customCell;
}

-(void)buttonclicked:(id)sender{
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [myTable indexPathForCell:sender];


    [myTable beginUpdates];

     NSIndexPath *insertPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:indexPath.row inSection:indexPath.section];
   [myTable insertRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:insertPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationTop];
  } 

can anyone help me?

Answer 1

I got the same task on one project with just one thing different: There were no buttons, just tapping on cell will expand or collapse it.

There are several things you should edit in your code. First, the button method code will look something like this:

- (void) collapseExpandButtonTap:(id) sender
{
    UIButton* aButton = (UIButton*)sender; //It's actually a button
    NSIndexPath* aPath = [self getIndexPathForCellWithButtonByMagic:aButton];
    //expandedCells is a mutable set declared in your interface section or private class extensiont
    if ([expandedCells containsObject:aPath])
    {
        [expandedCells removeObject:aPath];
    }
    else
    {
        [expandedCells addObject:aPath];
    }
    [myTableView beginEditing];
    [myTableView endEditing]; //Yeah, that old trick to animate cell expand/collapse
}

Now the second thing is UITableViewDelegate method:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if ([expandedCells containsObject:indexPath])
    {
        return kExpandedCellHeight; //It's not necessary a constant, though
    }
    else
    {
        return kNormalCellHeigh; //Again not necessary a constant
    }
}

Key thing here is to determine if your cell should be expanded/collapsed and return right height in delegate method.