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 items 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, you are going to add a UITableViewController to the storyboard and give it static content. Apple frequently changes the file templates, so it is possible that your UINavigationController’s rootViewController is not already a UITableViewController instance. Either way ...