iphone - Spacing between cells on UITableView with Custom UITableViewCell

Question

I have a UITableView loading a custom UITableViewCell from a XIB file. Everything is working fine, but my layout requires that the cells (all inside one single section) have spacing between them. Any chance this can be done without having to raise the ROW height?

how it is now

how it's supossed to be

EDIT:
this is how the code is today

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section{
    return [[self.cards valueForKeyPath:@"cards"] count];
}


- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    [ccTableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
    cardsCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cardsCell"];

    if(cell == nil){
      NSArray *topLevelObjects = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"cardsCell" owner:self options:nil];
      cell = [topLevelObjects objectAtIndex:0];
    }

    NSString *nmCard = [[self.cards valueForKeyPath:@"cards.name"] objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    cell.descCardLabel.text = nmCard;

  return cell;
}

Answer 1

There's actually a pretty easy solution to it that I found, if you're using custom uitableviewcell classes.

In the cell class, add this code:

- (void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    frame.origin.y += 4;
    frame.size.height -= 2 * 4;
    [super setFrame:frame];
}

This will give you a 4pt buffer within the cell height you put into the uitablview class you are calling this cell in. Obviously, you now have to compensate for that less space in the cell when putting in labels and images, but it works. You can also do the same thing on the x-axis to make the width of the cell smaller. I've done this in my app to show background images behind my cells.