How do I get a Row count from a UITableView

Question

I have a tableview I'd like to customize based on how many rows it has.

If it has no rows, I'd like the background image to prompt the user to add content. If it has 1 or more rows, I'd like it to have a different background image, in order to display the content.

I'm using a fetched results controller to populate my tableview, by the way.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well this is generally very easy to accomplish as you need only to have UITableView properly delegated to your ViewController with appropriate delegate methods included in your .m file.

Then you can anywhere get row count like this:

[tablePropertyName numberOfRowsInSection:SECTION_NUMBER];

where section number is 0 for first section, 1 for second, etc.

Answer 2

In Swift, you can get the UITableView rows count by

yourTableViewName.numberOfRows(inSection: Int)

example:

yourTableViewName.numberOfRows(inSection: 0) // returns rows count in section 0