Populating Table View Cells Creates blank cells

Question

I am populating a table view with items in a list and when I add multiple items to the table view, all of the cells except the first one is blank. And when I delete the cell lowest to the bottom of the screen, it puts the data from that cell into the next cell up. I'm not sure what I did wrong but here's my code if anyone is able to help.

import UIKit

// Initialize the list that populates the each cell in the table view
var list = [AnyObject]()
let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.default, 
reuseIdentifier: "cell")

class FirstViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, 
UITableViewDataSource {



@IBOutlet weak var myTableView: UITableView!



// Declares how many rows the table view will have
public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int
{
    return (list.count)
}

// Populates each table view cell with items from each index in the list
public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
{

//        let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.default, reuseIdentifier: "cell")
//        cell.accessoryType = .checkmark
//        cell.textLabel?.textAlignment = .natural

    // The text of the cell = the data of index that matches the index of the cell
    cell.textLabel?.text = list[indexPath.row] as? String

    // Sets the background color of the cell
//        cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

    return cell
}

// Allows user to remove item from table view by swiping left
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
    // if the user swiped left to delete an item from the table view
    if editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyle.delete
    {
        // remove the deleted item from the list and reload the data
        list.remove(at: indexPath.row)
        myTableView.reloadData()
    }
}

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and in case any of the previous answers didn't work: I made most of the set up programatically.

Define global var var cellsContent = [String]() // Change to any type you need

First create the cells with identifiers in viewDidLoad function:

cellsContent = ["Text1", "Text2"]
tableView.register(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "cell")
tableView.reloadData()

Populate each table view cell with the items in cellsContent var

public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
{
let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.default, reuseIdentifier: "cell")
cell.textLabel?.text = cellsContent[indexPath.row] as? String
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

return cell
}

Set sections and rows per section

override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 1 // Change as needed
    }
    
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return cellsContent.count
    }