UITableView showing extra separator lines, on top of cells, when reloading page

Question

I have a UITableView that contains mutiple sections. When my tab page first loads, everything looks fine. But when I navigate to a different tab, and come back, my UITableView has some extra separator lines.

I verified that numberOfRowsInSection is properly returning 2.

My row height is set to AutomaticDimension.

I am calling reloadData in viewDidAppear.

I tried setting the background color of my table cells to white, but the extra lines are still visible.

The UITableView is inside of a UIScrollView, which I know is frowned upon, but I am doing the calculation to calculate the size of the TableView. Everything works perfectly on initial load, it's not until I return to the tab that I get the extra lines.

Answer 1

In my AccountViewController, I was calling an API to get the user's get account information in ViewDidAppear.

Instead of creating a new TableViewSource, I would clear out the existing data, and the repopulate it with the result of the API call. The flow was something like this.

• Clear the Source Data
• Call the API
• Populate Source with API data
• Reload Table Data

I ended up solving the problem by making a call to Reload Table Data after the source was cleared.

• Clear the Source Data
• Reload Table Data
• Call the API
• Populate Source with API data
• Reload Table Data

Perhaps not the most efficient approach, but it was the easiest to implement within the current structure of the page.