UITableViewCell Dynamic Height
At first glance setting a height dynamically for table view cells seems a little daunting and the first most obvious answers that come to mind are not necessarily correct. In this post I will show you how to set your table view cell heights dynamically based upon the text content without subclassing UITableViewCell. You can subclass it, however, doing so does not make the code much cleaner as setting the height is done in your delegate for the table view itself rather than the cell anyhow. Read on to see what you need to know to make dynamic cell height sizing a breeze.
There are probably numerous reasons why you might want dynamic heights for your table view cells, but the one I’ve run into most is the need to resize because I am displaying lists of text objects with varying lengths. When the text is short, it might fit in the normal cell label, however, if the text gets longer, you will want to resize the cell so that you can display the complete content. I’ve distilled the process of resizing table cells to a few rules of thumb. Here they are: