iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Adding Rows

There are a number of ways to add rows to a table view at runtime. The built-in behavior for adding a row is to display a new row with a green plus sign icon. However, this technique has fallen out of favor because it’s cumbersome to enter editing mode and then find the row with the plus sign icon – especially in large tables.

So we’re going to use the New button in the header view instead. When this button is tapped, a new row will be added to the UITableView. In ItemsViewController.m, implement addNewItem:.

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