iOS 7 Programming Cookbook

4.2. Using Different Types of Accessories in a Table View Cell

Problem

You want to grab users’ attention in a table view by displaying accessories and offer different ways to interact with each cell in your table view.

Solution

Use the accessoryType of the UITableViewCell class, instances of which you provide to your table view in its data source object:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
         cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

    UITableViewCell* result = nil;

    if ([tableView isEqual:self.myTableView]){

        result = [tableView
                  dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyCellIdentifier
                  forIndexPath:indexPath];

        result.textLabel.text =
        [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Section %ld, Cell %ld",
         (long)indexPath.section,
         (long)indexPath.row];

        result.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDetailDisclosureButton;

    }

    return result;

}

- (NSInteger) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
  numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section{
    return 10;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.myTableView = [[UITableView alloc]
                        initWithFrame:self.view.bounds
                        style:UITableViewStylePlain];

    [self.myTableView registerClass:[UITableViewCell class]
             forCellReuseIdentifier:MyCellIdentifier];

    self.myTableView.dataSource = self;

    self.myTableView.autoresizingMask =
        UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth |
        UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;

    [self.view addSubview:self.myTableView];

}

Discussion

You can assign any of the values defined in the UITableViewCellAccessoryType enumeration to the accessoryType property of an ...