cocoa touch - Have a reloadData for a UITableView animate when changing

Question

I have a UITableView that has two modes. When we switch between the modes I have a different number of sections and cells per section. Ideally, it would do some cool animation when the table grows or shrinks.

Here is the code I tried, but it doesn't do anything:

CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); 
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:context]; 
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut]; 
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5]; 

[self.tableView reloadData];
[UIView commitAnimations];

Any thoughts on how I could do this?

Answer 1

Actually, it's very simple:

[_tableView reloadSections:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:0] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];

From the documentation:

Calling this method causes the table view to ask its data source for new cells for the specified sections. The table view animates the insertion of new cells in as it animates the old cells out.