How to Have One Static Cell in a Dynamic Tableview

Dynamic Tableview inside a Static tableview Cell

Well after astonishing efforts regarding this one, I've found the solution.
Concerning the following:
Swift: TableView within Static UITableViewCell

Where the problem solver says : As far as I can determine by experimenting with this, you can't use the same UITableViewController as the data source and delegate of both table views. With a static table view, you're not supposed to implement the data source methods at all. The strange thing is, even if I disconnect the data source and delegate connections between my static table view and the table view controller, that table view still calls numberOfRowsInSection in my table view controller class. If I explicitly set the data source to nil in code, that stops it from calling the data source methods, but the embedded dynamic table view also fails to call them, so this structure doesn't work.

However, you can get around this by using a different object to be the data source and delegate of your embedded dynamic table view. Make an IBOutlet for your embedded table view, and set its data source and delegate to this new object (The class is DataSource in this example, and it's a subclass of NSObject).

I've modified my code in this way now :

import Foundation
import UIKit
import MessageUI

class DataSource: NSObject, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

var items : [String] = ["GRE Test Structure ","GRE Score "]

func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {

    return 1;
}

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return 2;
}

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cellNew", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MainTableViewCell
        cell.customCell01.text = items[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }
}

class MenuController: UITableViewController,MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate {

  @IBOutlet var tablle0: UITableView!
  @IBOutlet weak var tablle: UITableView!
  var dataSource = DataSource()

  override func viewDidLoad() {
      super.viewDidLoad()

      // Uncomment the following line to preserve selection between presentations
      // self.clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear = false

      // Uncomment the following line to display an Edit button in the navigation bar for this view controller.
      // self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = 
      self.editButtonItem()
      tablle.delegate = dataSource
      tablle.dataSource = dataSource
  }

}

Now it works exactly fine.

UITableView Mix of Static and Dynamic Cells?

As you stated you can't mix static and dynamic cells. However, what you can do is break up the content into different data arrays that correspond to each group. Then break the table up into difference sections and load the data from the correct array in cellForRowAtIndexPath:.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellID = @"CELLID";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellID forIndexPath:indexPath];

    switch (indexPath.section) {
        case 0:{
            cell.textLabel.text = self.arrayOfStaticThings1[indexPath.row];
        }break;

        case 1:{
            cell.textLabel.text = self.arrayOfDynamicThings[indexPath.row];
        }break;

        case 2:{
            cell.textLabel.text = self.arrayOfStaticThings2[indexPath.row];
        }break;

        default:
            break;
    }

    return cell;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    switch (section) {
        case 0:{
            return self.arrayOfStaticThings1.count;
        }break;

        case 1:{
            return self.arrayOfDynamicThings.count;
        }break;

        case 2:{
            return self.arrayOfStaticThings2.count;
        }break;

        default:
            return 0;
            break;
    }
}

Swift - Create a UITableViewController with one static cell at the top and the rest be dynamic cells?

Don't use Static Cells. Choose Dynamic Prototypes in your table view and create 2 prototype cells.

And return first cell in first section, other cells in second section

override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
    return 2
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    if section == 0 {
        return 1
    } else if section == 1 {
        return sortedSongs.count
    } else if section == 2 {
        return anotherArrayCount  
    }
    return 0
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    if indexPath.section == 0 {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FirstCell", for: indexPath) as! FirstCell
        return cell
    } else {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "RecentCell", for: indexPath) as! RecentCell
        //cell.songTitle.text = albumList[indexPath.row]
        //cell.songArtist.text = artistList[indexPath.row]
        //cell.songImage.image = imageList[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }
}

Implement a dynamic table within a static table view (cell)

Okay thank you rMickeyD for your tip. I used it partially and implemented it. You can see the result on this screenshot here:

Adding to this I set the height of the cell in the static table with a prepareToSegue to the array of the guests.count * 44 for the cell height in the right.

Code for the static table view (left):

import UIKit
class EventDetailTableViewController: UITableViewController {

    var attendeesArrayFromDatabase = ["Kathi", "Cansin", "Tyrone", "Manuel", "Stavros", "Christoph", "Maria", "Aditya", "Kathi", "Cansin", "Tyrone", "Manuel", "Stavros", "Christoph", "Maria", "Aditya"]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat {

        if indexPath.section == 1 && indexPath.row == 0 {
            let height:CGFloat = CGFloat(attendeesArrayFromDatabase.count * 44)
            return height
        }
        return super.tableView(tableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath: indexPath)
    }

    // MARK: Navigation
    override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
        let destViewController : EventPeopleJoinedContainerTableViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! EventPeopleJoinedContainerTableViewController

        destViewController.attendeesArray = attendeesArrayFromDatabase
    }
}

and the right tableview for the dynamic table:

import UIKit
class EventPeopleJoinedContainerTableViewController: UITableViewController {

    var attendeesArray = []

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    }

    // MARK: - Table view data source
    override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return attendeesArray.count
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("personJoined", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell

        //Create a label with the name of a person from array attendeesArray
        let attendeeNameLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 70, y: 0, width: cell.frame.width, height: cell.frame.height))
        attendeeNameLabel.font = cell.textLabel?.font.fontWithSize(14.0)
        attendeeNameLabel.textColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor()
        attendeeNameLabel.text = attendeesArray[indexPath.row] as? String

        //Create a image view for the profile picture of the guest
        let attendeeImageView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 25, y: 7, width: 30, height: 30))
        attendeeImageView.layer.cornerRadius = attendeeImageView.frame.size.width/2
        attendeeImageView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor
        attendeeImageView.layer.borderWidth = 0.5
        attendeeImageView.clipsToBounds = true
        attendeeImageView.image = UIImage(named: "profilPicDummy")

        cell.contentView.addSubview(attendeeNameLabel)
        cell.contentView.addSubview(attendeeImageView)

        return cell
    }
}

Static UITableView, make a single cell with dynamic height in Swift

Have you tried this?

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> CGFloat {
    if (indexPath.row < 11) {
        // Everything starts at 0, so this covers 0-10
        // Whatever your cell height is
        return <#fixedCellHeight#>
    } else {
        // This is your 12th cell (indexPath.row 11), as we start counting at 0
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
    }
}

Swift: How to use static cell in dynamic UITableView

Have you tried something like this?

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! UITableViewCell

    if (indexPath.row == 1) {
        cell.textLabel?.text = "test"
    } else {
        // Configure the cell...
    }

    return cell
}

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