UITableView hide sectionindex but keep sections

Question

We would like to implement our own partition index interface for a UITableView.

This is clear because the contact application does this on the iPad. Is there a way to legally hide the current partition index? (I can get to the undocumented Uindiew _index, but I'm not going to shorten it with Apple, I suspect)

Answer 1

This answer helps.

The trick here is to have

- (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView; 

return nil, while maintaining implementations of other partition-based data source methods:

 - (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView; - (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section - (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section 

This is similar to the fact that tableview does not display the partition index, but still allows index navigation.

Answer 2

Does the answer to this question help ?:

Setting partition indexes in UITableView in iphone application