[Question] Dropdown cell

[Alexey Strokin]

@maxsokolov could you please advice any best practices from your perspective with TableKit? Or some code sample?

[Max Sokolov]

Hi @astrokin,

Let's define what dropdown cell is? Is it something like this?

[Alexey Strokin]

Hi @maxsokolov yes, something like this.

[Max Sokolov]

So I can see at least two approaches to implement this, but I can't say that TableKit has best practices for this.

so, anyway a solution depends on your UI:

1. You could make a few collapsable/expandable sections with custom header with arrow button like this:

let myHeader = MyHeaderView(title: "title", icon: UIImage())
myHeader.onClick = {

}
let section1 = TableSection(headerView: myHeader, footerView: nil)

tableDirector += [section1, section2, section3]

so once you clicked at arrow button you could just add rows to that section with animation:

let row1 = TableRow<StringTableCell>(item: "title")
section1 += row1

tableView.beginUpdates()
tableView.insertRows(at: [IndexPath], with: .automatic)
tableView.endUpdates()

Same to collapse section: simply remove rows from that section and perform changes on your tableView.

2. Or you could have only one section with different cells. And insert rows below the clicked row. But you should be careful with index paths.

So I guess the first approach is the easiest one.

[Alexey Strokin]

I thought in some similar way. Thank you for your advice.

[Max Sokolov]

@astrokin glad to help. Can we close the issue now?

[Alexey Strokin]

for sure. thanks!