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Swiping-to-Delete Table Rows

Swipe-to-delete is a signature iOS interaction. Notably available in Mailapp, deleting and editing data in UITableViews is a built-in API and an easy way to add some polish to your app.

To allow the user to delete table rows, you need to implement yet more dataSource methods.

• tableView:editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:, where we determine how each row can be edited. If a row can be edited, then the table view will change the UI accordingly. After the user has acted upon that UI, like tapping the Delete button, we call commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath:.

• tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath:, which is called after the user has edited or deleted some table view element. At this point, we need to actually ...