how to hide empty rows in a UITableView and change the height of the Uitableview based on non-empty rows

Question

I have couple of problems with my UITableView.

1. When I add a UITableview on my page, by default it brings up some fixed number of rows,

Answer 1

This can also be done through Interface Builder. Simply add a 1 pixel tall UIView as a footer to the UITableView. It's essentially the same as most of the answers here, but it keeps some UI specifics in the view instead of in the view controller.