How to add a footer to the UITableView?

Question

I'm specifically seeing in my code that

self.theTable.tableFooterView = tableFooter;

works and

[self.theTable.tableFooterView addSubview:tableFooter];

does not work. So stick to the former and look elsewhere for the possible bug. HTH

You need to implement the UITableViewDelegate method

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section

and return the desired view (e.g. a UILabel with the text you'd like in the footer) for the appropriate section of the table.

I used that and it worked Perfectly :)

    UIView* footerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 500)];
    [footerView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"ProductCellBackground.png"]]];
    self.tableView.tableFooterView = footerView;
    [self.tableView setSeparatorStyle:(UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone)];
    [self.tableView setContentInset:(UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, -500, 0))];

I know that this is a pretty old question but I've just met same issue. I don't know exactly why but it seems that tableFooterView can be only an instance of UIView (not "kind of" but "is member")... So in my case I've created new UIView object (for example wrapperView) and add my custom subview to it... In your case, chamge your code from:

CGRect footerRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 40);
UILabel *tableFooter = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:footerRect];
tableFooter.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];
tableFooter.backgroundColor = [self.theTable backgroundColor];
tableFooter.opaque = YES;
tableFooter.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:15];
tableFooter.text = @"test";
self.theTable.tableFooterView = tableFooter;
[tableFooter release];

to:

CGRect footerRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 40);
UIView *wrapperView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:footerRect];

UILabel *tableFooter = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:footerRect];
tableFooter.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];
tableFooter.backgroundColor = [self.theTable backgroundColor];
tableFooter.opaque = YES;
tableFooter.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:15];
tableFooter.text = @"test";

[wrapperView addSubview:tableFooter];

self.theTable.tableFooterView = wrapperView;
[wrapperView release];
[tableFooter release];

Hope it helps. It works for me.

Initially I was just trying the method:

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section

but after using this along with:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section

problem was solved. Sample Program-

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return 30.0f;
}

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    UIView *sampleView = [[UIView alloc] init];
    sampleView.frame = CGRectMake(SCREEN_WIDTH/2, 5, 60, 4);
    sampleView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    return sampleView;
}

and include UITableViewDelegate protocol.

@interface TestViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate>