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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition
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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
19h 31m
English
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UITableViewController

UITableView is a view object, so, according to Model-View-Controller, it knows how to draw itself, but that’s it. It doesn’t handle application logic or data. Thus, when using a UITableView, you must consider what else is necessary to get the table working in your application

  • First, a UITableView needs a data source. A UITableView asks its data source for the number of rows to display, the data to be shown in those rows, and other tidbits that make a UITableView a useful user interface. Without a data source, a table view is just an empty container. The dataSource for a UITableView can be any type of Objective-C object as long as it conforms to the UITableViewDataSource protocol.
  • A UITableView also typically needs a
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