Setting a cell's UITableViewCellAccessoryType creates an overly tall app

[stevemoser]

Setting
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryType.DisclosureIndicator
in cellForRowAtIndexPath causes cells to be created with lots of padding between the two labels.

[smileyborg]

Are you using the iOS 8 self-sizing cell mechanism? Because if you're doing it the iOS 7 way, this is a known limitation, see here for more details: smileyborg/TableViewCellWithAutoLayout#11

[stevemoser]

Sorry I should have specified. I am using self sizing cells.

I actually found a fix. I just set the accessory type in the tableView's willDisplayCell method and that fixes my layout issues. It seems like Apple is leaning towards doing more cell configuration in willDisplayCell than in cellForRowAtIndexPath. Or at least their sample code suggests that.

[smileyborg]

Good to know! You may want to also test on iOS 9 because they have fixed a number of outstanding bugs in the betas so far. This sounds more like a bug to me, it should work either way IMO.