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

You can add this to your Base class.

var messageLabel = UILabel()

func showNoDataMessage(msg: String) {
    let rect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: 0, y :self.view.center.y), size: CGSize(width: self.view.bounds.width - 16, height: 50.0))
    messageLabel = UILabel(frame: rect)
    messageLabel.center = self.view.center
    messageLabel.text = msg
    messageLabel.numberOfLines = 0
    messageLabel.textColor = Colors.grayText
    messageLabel.textAlignment = .center;
    messageLabel.font = UIFont(name: "Lato-Regular", size: 17)
    self.view.addSubview(messageLabel)
    self.view.bringSubviewToFront(messageLabel)
}

Show it like this in the class on getting the data from api.

func populateData(dataSource : [PRNJobDataSource]){
    self.dataSource = dataSource
    self.tblView.reloadData()
    if self.dataSource.count == 0 {self.showNoDataMessage(msg: "No data found.")}
}

Hide it like this.

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    if self.dataSource.count > 0 {self.hideNoDataMessage()}
    return dataSource.count
}

func hideNoDataMessage(){
    messageLabel.removeFromSuperview()
}