Remove Subview from Superview

Question

I am really stuck in this issue for quite a long time

I am trying to add a UIControl (which is a UIView in the end) to a UITableViewCell that i have subclasses in my own class (i made a custom cell)

on swipe, i create my UIControl class and add it to myself (the cell), so far so good. Here is the code

[self addSubview:_statusView];

However, i am adding a target action to my UIControl in the custom cell, so that the cell can handle when the UIControl says that he has recognized a touchDownEvent.

[self.statusView addTarget:self action:@selector(resetAll:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];

And here is what i want to do in the action, I want to remove that UIControl from self.subviews (the cell's subviews), so i set the action method to be like this

- (void)resetAll:(id)sender
{
for (UIView *view in self.subviews) {
    if ([view isKindOfClass:[StatusView class]]) {
        [view removeFromSuperview];
    }
}
}

Can someone point out whats wrong in this code? because i can't really figure out why the view that gets added to the cell does't get removed. It seem to me the the subviews property doesn't ever contain my UIControl that i add.

Answer 1

UITableViewCell internally does some manipulations with its view hierarchy. You should add subviews not to the cell itself, but to its contentView, as stated in the docs:

If you want to go beyond the predefined styles, you can add subviews to the contentView property of the cell.

So you have to replace

[self addSubview:_statusView];

with

[self.contentView addSubview:_statusView];

And then iterate on subviews of the contentView:

for (UIView *view in self.contentView.subviews) {
    if ([view isKindOfClass:[StatusView class]]) {
        [view removeFromSuperview];
    }
}