UITableViewRowAction image for title

Question

I made a custom UITableViewRowAction. Now I'd like to add an image instead of the text. I know that it's possible but don't know how to do it. Does someone of you knows how to do this in Swift and would like to help me? Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

iOS 11.0

Swift

Apple introduced flexible way to declare row actions with great benefits.

extension ViewController: UITableViewDelegate {
  func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, trailingSwipeActionsConfigurationForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UISwipeActionsConfiguration? {
    let askAction = UIContextualAction(style: .normal, title: nil) { action, view, complete in
      print("Ask!")
      complete(true)
    }

    // here set your image and background color
    askAction.image = IMAGE
    askAction.backgroundColor = .darkGray

    let blockAction = UIContextualAction(style: .destructive, title: "Block") { action, view, complete in
      print("Block")
      complete(true)
    }

    return UISwipeActionsConfiguration(actions: [blockAction, askAction])
  }

  func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplay cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    cell.textLabel?.text = "row: \(indexPath.row)"
  }
}

Example:

iOS 8.0

You need to set UIImage to backgroundColor of row action, concretely by:

Swift:

UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "IMAGE_NAME"))

Objective-C:

[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"IMAGE_NAME"]];