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[iOS][Swift] Adding timer on reusable UITableViewCells

A few months ago I started the job search and in my very first take-home assignment, I was asked to implement a feature to display timer on UITableViewCell. The use-case was we were going to fetch Bitcoin prices every 60 seconds and the cell would display how long it is

Best practices for configuring the table view cells on iOS with Swift

Best practices for configuring the table view cells on iOS with Swift

Many times, iOS developers utilize UITableView and UITableViewCell subclasses and sometimes UICollectionView variants to create beautiful views. But it could be tricky when you're writing it for the first time. It's important to know the best practices on how to configure these cells. In this post, I am going to

Using ImageDownloader library with reusable cells

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Using ImageDownloader library with reusable cells

This is the second part of original post [https://jayeshkawli.ghost.io/asynchronous-image-download-and-caching-in-swift/] where I wrote about how I built an image downloader and caching library for images. (webp and gif excluding). However, there is one thing which was briefly mentioned but wasn't elaborated is how to use this library

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UITableView Gotcha!

Have you ever run into the scenario where you struggle for several hours, fail to recognize the problem, end up blaming the creator of framework but still get amazed at how it works for other people/projects? This is a classical facepalm moment. I run into it more than usual,

Change cell appearance on selection

As an iOS developer you might have run into situations where you want to change the cell appearance when particular cell is selected. Naive approach to this would be (Which by the way I did before I came to know about this little trick) to keep track of two indexPaths.

UITableViewCell automatic height management

We all know that iOS8 brought in really nice changes. Well, it be will be too long post to describe all of them. But I will talk about one of my most favorite features Apple added into this release. Automatic height management for UITableViewCell with Autolayout Yes, you can fit

Custom Selected view for UITableViewCell

How to make custom selected background view for UITableViewCell. Recently I came across interesting problem where we were supposed to show multiple choice question format in UITableView. When user selected a cell, the bullet image for that cell would get toggled on/off based on select/deselect action. However, what