UITableView: the proper way to display a separator for the last cell

Question

The question is what\'s the right-most way to display a separator in the last cell in a table/section.

Basically this is what I am after.

Answer 1

Swift 3

I found this old issue, so I tried the same in Swift:

    tableView.tableFooterView = UIView()
    tableView.tableFooterView?.height = 0 // Maybe not necessary

But it lead to another problem (in my case). So I solved it differently. I added an extra cell at the end of this section, empty and with height equal to zero:

    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
      return previousNumberOfRows + 1
    }

    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
      return indexPath.row == previousNumberOfRows ? 0 : previousCellHeight
    }

    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
      if indexPath.row == items.count {
        return UITableViewCell()
    } else {
       previousCellInitialization()
    }

This is a less concise solution, but works in more cases, if you have multiple sections, existing footer view(s)...