How to get a UITableView's visible sections?

Question

UITableView provides the methods indexPathsForVisibleRows and visibleCells, but how can I get the visible sections?

Answer 1

Extract the sections from the list of visible rows:

NSArray *indexPathsForVisibleRows = [tableView indexPathsForVisibleRows];
NSMutableIndexSet *indexSet = [NSMutableIndexSet indexSet];
for ( NSIndexPath *indexPath in indexPathsForVisibleRows ) {
     [indexSet addIndex:indexPath.section];
}
NSLog(@"indexSet %@",indexSet);
// indexSet [number of indexes: 5 (in 1 ranges), indexes: (9-13)]

Or:

NSArray *indexPathsForVisibleRows = [detailTableView indexPathsForVisibleRows];
NSMutableSet *sectionSet = [NSMutableSet set];
for ( NSIndexPath *indexPath in indexPathsForVisibleRows ) {
    [sectionSet addObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:indexPath.section]];
}
NSLog(@"sectionSet %@",sectionSet);
// sectionSet {(13, 11, 9, 10, 12 )}