UITableView get smaller - swift

I will try to explain my problem with the help of pictures :
Firstly, I just added an UITableView to my UIViewController. I selected it to show its frame and there was no problem.
Next, when I connect my button to my UIViewController, my UITableView gets smaller.
I selected it to see that the frame doesn't match with the contents. I noticed that the tableview reduces exactly of 64 (44 from the UINavigationBar + 20 from the bar with the battery)
At the beginning, I thought it was juste a display problem from XCode, but next when I tried to run it with cells, the problem still exist.
So I put a UIContainerView in my UIViewController and my tableView in the controller of the container. XCode display properly my table view, but when in run it, I get the same problem.
Thank you in advance,
Sorry for my english.

The problem is that your containing view controller's Adjust Scroll View Insets is checked (in its Attributes inspector). Uncheck it.

You can use this function to explicitly set the size of your cell.
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
}

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How to implement different UI screens to my playground

Im trying to include a tap to open screen on my playground that then allows users to see my chart. I want them to first tap through 3 or 4 screens with different information before loading to my main page.
Ive tried searching up tutorials (Im new at this), but cant find any that help me.
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}
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Description:
I have a list of UITableViewCells that have each have a UICollectionView with X amount of UICollectionViewCells (see image below for more clarity)
The idea behind this is to be able to implement sections with a header on top and a horizontal scrolling UICollectionView
Everything is working great, except when I try to focus the UICollectionViewCells (aka: CategoryCell). The UITableViewCell gets focused and highlights all the content making it impossible to focus any of the UICollectionViewCells.
What I've tried:
According to other posts the fix for this would be deactivate User Interaction and/or set the selection style to none on the UITableViewCell:
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and to enable User Interaction on the UICollectionViewCell instead.
Here are posts that talk about it:
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I've attempted to implemen these solutions without success.
Question:
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Image showing my UITableViewController and all it's contents from my StoryBoard.
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The focus engine will try to focus on the top-most view that returns true from canBecomeFocused, which is why it can't find your collection view cells: they're "hidden" inside the focusable table view cells. If you disable focus on the table view cells, then the focus engine will be able to find your collection view cells.
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, canFocusRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> Bool {
return false
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Segmented controller

UIView,SegmentedController & UIContainerView in a ScrollView or something similar?
In my storyboard I have a VC containing a UIView at the top, segmented controller in the middle & 2 ContainerViewControllers at the bottom with embeded segue's to new VC's.
In the new VC's I have a TableView & a CollectionView (For example, the Instagram profile).
My issue is that I need the SegmentedController and UIView to scroll with the ContainerView(TableView/CollectionView), at the moment only the ContainerView part scrolls and the parts above that are fixed.
Now I'm guessing I probably need to put everything into a UIScrollView, so I tried that & placed all the costraints correctly. But when It came to configuring it in the Swift file, I only really now how to set the height of the scroll but oviously the height I need can vary and isn't a fixed height!
If anyone can help me here that would be fantastic, or maybe point me towards a similar question already asked here? I have already looked, but did not find anything unfortunately!
Here's an image below explaining basically what I'm after, if above I wasn't very clear..
here is an example you can see: https://github.com/Jackksun/ScrollIssue
the image is here, as I dont have enough reputation I cannot place it in the post!
You can use only UITableViewController. You will define three custom cells and in cellForRowAtIndexPath ask for the Index number, if it is 0 you will set the elements in that cell accordingly
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
var cell: TableViewCell!
// stuff in UIView
if indexPath.row == 0 { set the cell here}
// for UISegmentedController
if indexPath.row == 1 { set the cell here}
// cells that will repeat
if indexPath.row >= 2 { set the cell here}
return cell
}
Update1
Define how many custom cells you will use in Attribute inspector for tableView, you will see them instantly in Storyboard
Update 3
Did you mean this? It is completely table view with 4 custom cells. I didnt use Collection view at all but I think it works as you wanted