Change default icon for moving cells in UITableView

Question

I need to change default icon for moving cells in UITableView.

This one:

Is it possible?

Answer 1

This is a really hacky solution, and may not work long term, but may give you a starting point. The re-order control is a UITableViewCellReorderControl, but that's a private class, so you can't access it directly. However, you could just look through the hierarchy of subviews and find its imageView.

You can do this by subclassing UITableViewCell and overriding its setEditing:animated: method as follows:

- (void) setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated {     [super setEditing: editing animated: YES];      if (editing) {          for (UIView * view in self.subviews) {             if ([NSStringFromClass([view class]) rangeOfString: @"Reorder"].location != NSNotFound) {                 for (UIView * subview in view.subviews) {                     if ([subview isKindOfClass: [UIImageView class]]) {                         ((UIImageView *)subview).image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"yourimage.png"];                     }                 }             }         }     }    } 

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Or in Swift

override func setEditing(_ editing: Bool, animated: Bool) {     super.setEditing(editing, animated: animated)      if editing {         for view in subviews where view.description.contains("Reorder") {             for case let subview as UIImageView in view.subviews {                 subview.image = UIImage(named: "yourimage.png")             }         }     } } 

Be warned though... this may not be a long term solution, as Apple could change the view hierarchy at any time.

Answer 2

Ashley Mills' answer was excellent at the time it was offered, but as others have noted in the comments, the view hierarchy has changed from version to version of iOS. In order to properly find the reorder control, I'm using an approach that traverses the entire view hierarchy; hopefully this will give the approach an opportunity to continue working even if Apple changes the view hierarchy.

Here's the code I'm using to find the reorder control:

-(UIView *) findReorderView:(UIView *) view {     UIView *reorderView = nil;     for (UIView *subview in view.subviews)     {         if ([[[subview class] description] rangeOfString:@"Reorder"].location != NSNotFound)         {             reorderView = subview;             break;         }         else         {             reorderView = [self findReorderView:subview];             if (reorderView != nil)             {                 break;             }         }     }     return reorderView; } 

And here's the code I'm using to override the -(void) setEditing:animated: method in my subclass:

-(void) setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated {     [super setEditing:editing animated:animated];     if (editing)     {         // I'm assuming the findReorderView method noted above is either         // in the code for your subclassed UITableViewCell, or defined         // in a category for UIView somewhere         UIView *reorderView = [self findReorderView:self];         if (reorderView)         {             // I'm setting the background color of the control             // to match my cell's background color             // you might need to do this if you override the             // default background color for the cell             reorderView.backgroundColor = self.contentView.backgroundColor;             for (UIView *sv in reorderView.subviews)             {                 // now we find the UIImageView for the reorder control                 if ([sv isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]])                 {                     // and replace it with the image we want                     ((UIImageView *)sv).image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImage.png"];                     // note:  I have had to manually change the image's frame                     // size to get it to display correctly                     // also, for me the origin of the frame doesn't seem to                     // matter, because the reorder control will center it                     sv.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 48.0, 48.0);                 }             }         }     } }