iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 7th Edition

Creating ItemCell

Create a new Swift file named ItemCell. In ItemCell.swift, define ItemCell as a UITableViewCell subclass.

Listing 10.1  Adding the ItemCell class (ItemCell.swift)

import Foundation
import UIKit

class ItemCell: UITableViewCell {

}

The easiest way to configure a UITableViewCell subclass is through a storyboard. In Chapter 9, you saw that storyboards for table view controllers have a Prototype Cells section. This is where you will lay out the content for the ItemCell.

Open Main.storyboard and select the UITableViewCell in the document outline. Open its attributes inspector, change the Style to Custom, and change the Identifier to ItemCell.

Now open its identity inspector (the tab). In the Class field, ...