UITableView tap to deselect cell

Question

I have a UITableViewCell that is selected when tapped. During this selected state, if the user taps the cell again, I want the cell to deselect.

I can't find any of the delegate calls being hit. Any ideas how to implement this? Is it really going to be a gesture recognizer?

Answer 1

You can actually do this using the delegate method willSelectRowAtIndexPath:

- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {     UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];     if ([cell isSelected]) {         // Deselect manually.         [tableView.delegate tableView:tableView willDeselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];         [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];         [tableView.delegate tableView:tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];          return nil;     }      return indexPath; } 

Note that deselectRowAtIndexPath: won't call the delegate methods automatically, so you need to make those calls manually.

Answer 2

in Swift 4:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {      if let indexPathForSelectedRow = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow,         indexPathForSelectedRow == indexPath {         tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: false)         return nil     }     return indexPath }