How do I hide/show a UITableView programmatically in Objective-C?

I have a UITableView that I have set as hidden by de开发者_如何学Cfault in Interface Builder. I want to set it up so that a user clicks on a button and it shows the UITableView programmatically.

Is there some method I can just call on my UITableView object in order to change its visibility?

myTableView.hidden = NO;

UITableView is a subclass of UIView so inherits all UIView's properties. Look at the documentation for -[UITableView setHidden]

You can also change the alpha on the tableview if you want to fade it in / fade it out. For example:

Fading a view out:

// fade myView out
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
                 animations:^{
                    myView.alpha = 0;
                 }];

Fading a view in:

// fade myView in
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
                 animations:^{
                    myView.alpha = 1;
                 }];