Jerky Scrolling After Updating UITableViewCell in place with UITableViewAutomaticDimension

Question

I am building an app that has a feed view for user-submitted posts. This view has a UITableView with a custom UITableViewCell implementation. Insid

Answer 1

We had the same problem. It comes from a bad estimation of the cell height that causes the SDK to force a bad height which will cause the jumping of cells when scrolling back up. Depending on how you built your cell, the best way to fix this is to implement the UITableViewDelegate method - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

As long as your estimation is pretty close to the real value of the cell height, this will almost cancel the jumping and jerkiness. Here's how we implemented it, you'll get the logic:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // This method will get your cell identifier based on your data
    NSString *cellType = [self reuseIdentifierForIndexPath:indexPath];

    if ([cellType isEqualToString:kFirstCellIdentifier])
        return kFirstCellHeight;
    else if ([cellType isEqualToString:kSecondCellIdentifier])
        return kSecondCellHeight;
    else if ([cellType isEqualToString:kThirdCellIdentifier])
        return kThirdCellHeight;
    else {
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension;
    }
}

Added Swift 2 support

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat {
    // This method will get your cell identifier based on your data
    let cellType = reuseIdentifierForIndexPath(indexPath)

    if cellType == kFirstCellIdentifier 
        return kFirstCellHeight
    else if cellType == kSecondCellIdentifier
        return kSecondCellHeight
    else if cellType == kThirdCellIdentifier
        return kThirdCellHeight
    else
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension  
}