UITableView tableFooterView shows at the top of the UITableView - wrong

Question

I have created a very simple test case to reproduce this issue.

I am trying to set a footer view programmatically to a tableview. Please note that I am referring to the

Answer 1

You can use Autolayout and Xibs to create a footer view. But you have to put your custom view to the container view, that you assign to tableFooterView.

func setupTableFooterView() {
    // Create your footer view from XIB and set constraints (in my case it is historyToolBarView of class HistoryToolBarView)
    let view = Bundle.main.loadNibNamed("HistoryToolBarView", owner: self, options: nil)?.first
    historyToolBarView = view as! HistoryToolBarView
    historyToolBarView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    historyToolBarView.addConstraints(
        [NSLayoutConstraint.init(item: self.historyToolBarView,
                                 attribute: .height,
                                 relatedBy: .equal,
                                 toItem: nil,
                                 attribute: .notAnAttribute,
                                 multiplier: 1.0,
                                 constant: 60),
         NSLayoutConstraint.init(item: self.historyToolBarView,
                                 attribute: .width,
                                 relatedBy: .equal,
                                 toItem: nil,
                                 attribute: .notAnAttribute,
                                 multiplier: 1.0,
                                 constant: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width)])

    // Create a container of your footer view called footerView and set it as a tableFooterView
    let footerView = UIView(frame: CGRect.init(x: 0, y: 0, width: tableView.frame.width, height: 60))
    footerView.backgroundColor = UIColor.green
    tableView.tableFooterView = footerView

    // Add your footer view to the container
    footerView.addSubview(historyToolBarView)
}