How to hide first section header in UITableView (grouped style)

Question

As the design of table views using the grouped style changed considerably with iOS 7, I would like to hide (or remove) the first section header. So far I haven\'t managed to

Answer 1

I have a workaround that seems reasonably clean to me. So I'm answering my own question.

Since 0 as the first section header's height doesn't work, I return 1. Then I use the contentInset to hide that height underneath the navigation bar.

Objective-C:

- (CGFloat) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (section == 0)
            return 1.0f;
    return 32.0f;
}

- (NSString*) tableView:(UITableView *) tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (section == 0) {
        return nil;
    } else {
        // return some string here ...
    }
}

- (void) viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

     self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0);
}

Swift:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return section == 0 ? 1.0 : 32
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: -1, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
}