Add handling for animating out the empty item when going from an empty table to a populated table. Fixes an issue where table animation was breaking due to unbalanced insert/deletes when the emptyItem was showing before a table update.

Code/UI/RKFetchedResultsTableController.h

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ typedef UIView*(^RKFetchedResultsTableViewViewForHeaderInSectionBlock)(NSUIntege
     NSFetchedResultsController* _fetchedResultsController;
     BOOL _showsSectionIndexTitles;
     NSArray* _arraySortedFetchedObjects;
+    BOOL _isEmptyBeforeAnimation;
 }
 
 @property (nonatomic, readonly) NSFetchedResultsController* fetchedResultsController;

Code/UI/RKFetchedResultsTableController.m

@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@
             [self isEmptyRow:indexPath.row]);
 }
 
+- (NSIndexPath *)emptyItemIndexPath {
+    return [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
+}
+
 - (NSIndexPath *)fetchedResultsIndexPathForIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
     if (([self isEmpty] && self.emptyItem &&
          [self isEmptySection:indexPath.section] &&
@@ -479,6 +483,7 @@
 - (void)controllerWillChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController*)controller {
     RKLogTrace(@"Beginning updates for fetchedResultsController (%@). Current section count = %d (resource path: %@)", controller, [[controller sections] count], _resourcePath);
     [self.tableView beginUpdates];
+    _isEmptyBeforeAnimation = [self isEmpty];
 }
 
 - (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController*)controller
@@ -547,6 +552,10 @@
 - (void)controllerDidChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController*)controller {
     RKLogTrace(@"Ending updates for fetchedResultsController (%@). New section count = %d (resource path: %@)",
                controller, [[controller sections] count], _resourcePath);
+    if (self.emptyItem && ![self isEmpty] && _isEmptyBeforeAnimation) {
+        [self.tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[self emptyItemIndexPath]]
+                                                       withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
+    }
 	[self.tableView endUpdates];
     [self didFinishLoad];
 }