If no Table View results, display “No Results” on screen

Question

I have a tableview, where sometimes there might not be any results to list, so I would like to put something up that says \"no results\" if the

Answer 1

I think the most elegant way to solve your problem is switching from a UITableViewController to a UIViewController that contains a UITableView. This way you can add whatever UIView you want as subviews of the main view.

I wouldn't recommend using a UITableViewCell to do this you might need to add additional things in the future and things can quicky get ugly.

You can also do something like this, but this isn't the best solution either.

UIWindow* window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
[window addSubview: OverlayView];