Handling an empty UITableView. Print a friendly message

Question

I have a UITableView that in some cases it is legal to be empty. So instead of showing the background image of the app, I would prefer to print a friendly message in the scr

Answer 1

I have been using the titleForFooterInSection message for this. I don't know if this is suboptimal or not, but it works.

-(NSString*)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section   {

    NSString *message = @"";
    NSInteger numberOfRowsInSection = [self tableView:self.tableView numberOfRowsInSection:section ];

    if (numberOfRowsInSection == 0) {
        message = @"This list is now empty";
    }

    return message;
}