remove the delete button ⛔️ on table rows in edit mode

Question

I am trying to learn Swift, but there is a problem in my project that drives me nuts. I have a working list of data in a ViewController fed by parse.com. I managed to implement a swipe-feature that reveals buttons for both deleting and editing. That is working fine. Now I want the user to be able to reorder the cells. So I successfully implemented a button to put the table into editing-mode. My 2 problems with that are:

1. When I enter edit-mode I just want to be able to reorder the cells since editing and deleting is done via swipe (via "tableView(tableView: UITableView, editActionsForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath)". How can I achive that the user doesn't see the 2 buttons for deleting and editing when in editing-mode and touching the delete-circle that is provided automatically?

2. Is it possible to remove the delete-circle altogether? Using "UITableViewCellEditingStyle.None" also disables the swipe-functionality.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

To avoid the round red delete button that appears when you put set UITableView isEditing to true at the left and does nothing when you click it, the minimum that worked for me was this (Swift 4, iOS 11)

// Avoid the round red delete button on the left of the cell:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
    return false
}


func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, editingStyleForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCellEditingStyle {
    return .none
}

I also have these functions, which probably interact:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
    return savedTempTable.isEditing
}

// Including this function in the delegate enable left-swipe deleting
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
    if editingStyle == .delete {
        savedConversions.remove(at: indexPath.row)
    }
}


// Including this function enables reordering
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, moveRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath,to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath)
{
    let elem = savedConversions.remove(at: sourceIndexPath.row)
    savedConversions.insert(elem, at: destinationIndexPath.row)
}