Beginning iOS 5 Application Development

8

Creating and Persisting Data Using the Table View

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

• Manually adding a Table view to a view, and wiring the data source and delegate to your View Controller
• Handling the various Table view events to populate it with items
• Enabling users to select Table view items
• Displaying text and images in the rows of the Table view
• Displaying the items from a property list in a Table view
• Grouping the items in a Table view into sections
• Adding indexing to the Table view
• Adding search capabilities to the Table view
• Adding disclosures and checkmarks to rows in the Table view
• Navigating to another View window

One of the most commonly used views in iOS applications is the Table view. The Table view is used to display lists of items from which users can select, or users can tap an item to display more information about it. Figure 8-1 shows a Table view in action in the Safari application.

FIGURE 8-1

The Table view is such an important topic that it deserves a chapter of its own. Hence, in this chapter, you examine the Table view in detail, and learn about the various building blocks that make it such a versatile view.