How to scroll to the exact end of the UITableView?

Question

I have a UITableView that is populated with cells with dynamic height. I would like the table to scroll to the bottom when the view controller is pushed from vi

Answer 1

[Swift 3, iOS 10]

I've ended up using kind-of-hacky solution, but it doesn't depend on rows indexpaths (which leads to crashes sometimes), cells dynamic height or table reload event, so it seems pretty universal and in practice works more reliable than others I've found.

• use KVO to track table's contentOffset

• fire scroll event inside KVO observer

• schedule scroll invocation using delayed Timer to filter multiple
  observer triggers

The code inside some ViewController:

private var scrollTimer: Timer?
private var ObserveContext: Int = 0

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    table.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "contentSize", options: NSKeyValueObservingOptions.new, context: &ObserveContext)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    table.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: "contentSize")
}

override func observeValue(forKeyPath keyPath: String?, of object: Any?, change: [NSKeyValueChangeKey : Any]?, context: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) {
    if (context == &ObserveContext) {
        self.scheduleScrollToBottom()
    }
}

func scheduleScrollToBottom() {

    if (self.scrollTimer == nil) {
        self.scrollTimer = Timer(timeInterval: 0.5, repeats: false, block: { [weak self] (timer) in
            let table = self!.table

            let bottomOffset = table.contentSize.height - table.bounds.size.height
            if !table.isDragging && bottomOffset > 0 {
                let point: CGPoint = CGPoint(x: 0, y: bottomOffset)
                table.setContentOffset(point, animated: true)
            }

            timer.invalidate()
            self?.scrollTimer = nil
        })
        self.scrollTimer?.fire()
    }
}