show UItableview scrollbar for few seconds on page load - iphone

I am having number of rows in UITableView. To let people know that there are many items I want to display tableview scrollbar for few secs when view appears. Is there any method or delegate which i missed?
Thanks

You can use:
[self.tableView flashScrollIndicators];
However, you can't make them visible unless user is scrolling the UITableView.

Because UITableView is a kind of UIScrollView, you can call flashScrollIndicators

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Proper way to implement a footer in UITableView

So I read here that I can simply drag a UITableViewCell to the bottom of my UITableViewController in storyboard and have it act like a footer. This footer row has an activity indicator in it that's it. It's width is 320 and height 55 with the indicator centered in the row. Note that it's a UIView rather than a UITableViewCell because I can only get it to work with the former.
First, The UITableView doesn't stop at the footer. One can see the footer if he extends his scrolling beyond the bottom of the UITableView. As soon as the user releases his finger, the footer disappears from site as the UITableView returns its scrolling back to the last element. I am trying to do what Instagram is doing - if you scroll to the bottom you can see their custom activity indicator at the bottom and the UITable will remain its scrolling position at that indicator. How can I achieve this?
Second, I have some custom scrolling performed by certain user actions. Right now, I have the following code:
if (row + 1 < [self.tableView numberOfRowsInSection:0]) {
[self.tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:row+1 inSection:0]
atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle animated:YES];
} else {
// TODO scroll a little down so the user can see the activityIndicator
}
How can I tell my tableView to scroll programmatically to the footer and have it stop there?
Third During the very beginning, my UITableView has to fetch things from my server before it can populate the tableView. Unfortunately i can't get the footer view to maximize the space of the UITableView so that the activityIndicator will appear in the center. Right now this is how it looks:
I think I have the structs set correctly:
I suspect that having a UIView within a UITableView might prevent the view from maximizing.
Summary
Any recommendations on the above issues? I apologize for the length of this question, but I feel that they are all related to the same problem mentioned above.
I finally figured it out.
With regards to #zing and #Lithu answers, that worked. However, returning a footerView from this method forces the footerView to "stick" to the bottom of the TableView. By this I mean that the footerview will always be shown (which is not something I want)
I finally used self.tableView.footerView = MyView. I disabled ALL the spring and struct settings on my UIView and it fits perfectly. (I've previously set it to maximize hoping to have it maximize when there is nothing in the table)
Regarding centering the activity indicator: I ended up setting the footer view to hidden if there's nothing in the UITableView (by checking in numberOfRows). I programmatically added the ActivityIndicator in the center if this occurs.
Thanks for all the answers!!
Did you try to do it in the proper delegate for UITableview Footer
- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
Use This code to add any view in the footer.
e.g.
- (UIView*)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
UIView *footerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 50, self.tblView.frame.size.width, 49)];
return footerView;
}

UITableView sectionIndexTitlesForTableView and scrollingIndicator

When my sectionIndexTitlesForTableView return something(not nil), default scrollView scrolling indicator of my UITableView disappears. How can I show it?
You can call
[self.tableView flashScrollIndicators];
and they will flash to show the user that they are there. This is usually put in viewDidAppear.
It actually flash the scroll indicators.

Implementing a dynamic height on UITableView

I have a UITableView embedded in a UIViewController. The TableViewCells are rows for the user to select something, so when they touch it a checkmark appears, heres where my question comes in:
I dont want the UITableView to scroll in its window, I want the TableView to grow with the items it contains. Do I need to put a scroll view on the UIViewController and then the TableView on that? Or will the ViewController scroll if the content is bigger than the View?
Also, Im not even sure where to start with changing the height dynamically of the UITableView, everywhere I look its about changing the cell heighets dynamically.
Please Help! Thank you!
self.tableView.scrollEnabled=false;
stops the scrolling
self.tableView.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, (float)width, (float)height);
sets the size of your tableview
But I don't understand why you want to stop tableview scrolling and to scroll the whole view....

How to interact with a UITableView displayed overlapping another UITableView

I have one UITableView displaying some data, and when the user begins typing in a UITextField above the UITableView, another UITableView is displayed below the UITextField to show suggestions. This "suggestions" UITableView overlaps the UITableView below the UITextField. Tapping on one of the suggestions will populate the text box with the item tapped.
The suggestions UITableView displays in front of the other UITableView, but problem is that none of the taps to the suggestions UITableView register if they're outside the bounds of the view that contains it.
This is probably a really simple problem dealing more with UIViews in general, but I'm having trouble. Thanks for the help!
You have to adjust your second tableview which is giving you suggestions below testfield which will solve most of your issues
hope it helps you
you can show the second UITableView within another view that is displayed above the current view, like a popover, using
[self.view addSubview:secondView].
Once a selection is made, you can remove this view using
[secondView removeFromSuperview];

Problem in UITableView and UIScrollView

My table has more than 10 rows with 50 row height....so i can't select my last row....so i have set UIScrollView and add this table into UIScrollView.
Table display perfectly but which rows are displayed in UIScrollView, these are not selectable.
How can i get this row selecablt in UIScrollView. If anyone body know then pls tell me wha to do?
Thanks,
Haresh.
Putting a UITableView inside a UIScrollView won't work, beause UITableView is a UIScrollView. You're going to have to work out why UITableView won't scroll properly for you on its own.
Check how you initialize it and look at some of Apple's example UITableView code to see what is different.
It may be that your navigation bar, toolbar or some other control is hiding that last row. Check to make sure the tableview partly under another control.