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

Using ItemCell

Let’s get your custom cells onscreen. In ItemsViewController’s tableView(_:cellForRowAt:) method, you will dequeue an instance of ItemCell for every row in the table.

Now that you are using a custom UITableViewCell subclass, the table view needs to know how tall each row is. There are a few ways to accomplish this, but the simplest way is to set the rowHeight property of the table view to a constant value. You will see another way shortly.

Open ItemsViewController.swift and implement viewDidLoad() to set the height of the table view cells.

Listing 10.3  Setting a fixed row height (ItemsViewController.swift)

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    tableView.rowHeight = 65
}

Now that you have registered ...