Over the course of the next few chapters, you’ll build some hierarchical navigation-based applications similar to the Mail application that ships on iOS devices. Applications of this type, usually called master-detail applications, allow the user to drill down into nested lists of data and edit that data. But before you can build these types of applications, you’ll need to master the concept of table views.
Table views provide iOS devices with the most common mechanism used to display lists of data to the user. They are highly configurable objects able ...