iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

UITableViewControllers in Storyboards

When using a UITableViewController, you typically implement the appropriate data source methods to return the content of each cell. This makes sense when you have dynamic content – like a list of BNRItems that may change – but it is a lot of work when you have a table whose content never changes. Storyboards allow you to add static content to a table view without having to implement the data source methods.

To see how easy this is, we’re going to add a UITableViewController to the storyboard and give it static content. (Depending on a number of factors, the root view controller of the UINavigationController may already be a UITableViewController. If this is the case in your storyboard, go through the following ...