Add a footer to UITableView at the bottom

Question

I am doing a slide menu using a UITableView and I have 2 options on the menu and I want to put a button at the bottom like in this image:

I try to do that add a tableFooterView like that.

UIView *footerView  = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 500, 320, 70)];
footerView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.tableView.tableFooterView = footerView;

However, the view appears just after the second cell, but I want it at the bottom.

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

No you shouldn't add any empty cells, that's just hacky. If you really need the button to be at the bottom, you should use layoutSubviews to control the frame of the tableView and the footerView.

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
   [super layoutSubviews];
   self.tableView.frame = // top 80% of the screen
   self.footerView.frame = // bottom 20% of the screen
}