Beginning iOS Storyboarding with Xcode: Easily Design and Develop Your App, from Concept and Vision to Code

Chapter 8

Mastering Table Views with Storyboarding: Coding the Back End

So far, without writing any code, you’ve designed a pretty complex Inventory system that will keep track of items—in this case, Apress books—and add items to the database from the app itself. As you saw in Chapter 7’s Figure 7-87, it all works except that you don’t have any data linked to the app.

Here in Chapter 8, in step 3 of 3 for the app, you’ll be writing code that will connect your SQLite database to each of the View Controllers you created in Chapter 7.

Step 3: Insert the Code Behind the Storyboard Elements and Tweak a Couple Storyboard Necessities

Let’s start this third step by creating a custom UITableViewCell subclass.

Creating a Custom UITableViewCell subclass ...