How to find the number of Cells in UITableView

based on Biranchi's code, here's a little snippet that retrieves every through cell. Hope this can help you !

UITableView *tableview = self.tView;    //set your tableview here
int sectionCount = [tableview numberOfSections];
for(int sectionI=0; sectionI < sectionCount; sectionI++) {
    int rowCount = [tableview numberOfRowsInSection:sectionI];
    NSLog(@"sectionCount:%i rowCount:%i", sectionCount, rowCount);
    for (int rowsI=0; rowsI < rowCount; rowsI++) {
        UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)[tableview cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:rowsI inSection:sectionI]];
        NSLog(@"%@", cell);
    }
}

UITableView is designed only as a way to view your data, taken from the data source. The total number of cells is an information that belongs in the data source and you should access it from there. UITableView holds enough cells to fit the screen which you can access using

- (NSArray *)visibleCells

One dirty solution would be to maintain a separate array of every UITableViewCell you create. It works, and if you have a low number of cells it's not that bad.

However, this is not a very elegant solution and personally I wouldn't choose this unless there is absolutely no other way. It's better that you do not modify the actual cells in the table without a corresponding change in the data source.

the total count of all cells (in a section) should be whatever is being returned by

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section

however this method is getting count, you can do it in your own methods also. Probably something like return [myArrayofItems count];

int sections = [tableView numberOfSections]; 

int rows = 0; 

for(int i=0; i < sections; i++)
{
    rows += [tableView numberOfRowsInSection:i];
}

Total Number of rows = rows;