UITableViewRowAction vs UISwipeActionsConfiguration

Question

The two APIs seem to get the same result. In which case is it better to use one over the other?

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, editActions         


        

Answer 1

It does basically the same, but swipe actions are available since iOS 11 was released and have some new features:

• You are able to set actions for trailing swipe as well as for leading swipe
• You can set image of action action.image = UIImage(...). If there is enough space it shows image as well as title

Also, you should use swipe actions because they are preferred and in the future updates UITableViewRowActions will be deprecated how UITableView header comment can tell us:

Use -tableView:trailingSwipeActionsConfigurationForRowAtIndexPath: instead of this method, which will be deprecated in a future release.