iPhone® Application Development All-In-One For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Setting the Table

In This Chapter

• Checking out the versatile table view

• Making the table look good

• Ensuring that your application is usable worldwide

• Making sure something happens after a user makes a selection

Views are the user's window into your application; they present the user experience on a silver platter, as it were. Their associated view controllers manage the user experience by providing the data displayed in the view, as well as by enabling user interaction.

In this chapter, you get a closer look at the RoadTrip Main view — the view you see when you launch the application — as well as the view controller that enables it. As part of your tour of the Main view, I show you how to use one of the most powerful features of the framework: table views. In the chapters that follow, I show you how to create the views that you set up to deliver the content of your application — how to add a hotel or campground, display places to visit, get directions from San Francisco to Big Sur, or even check on the weather in both places to see whether you really want to go.

In this and the following minibooks books, I get a chance to dive into how you would actually implement the application. I cover topics like the user interface, mapping, core location, e-mail, core data, and everything in between. But the best place to start — in my humble opinion — is right here with table views, which is why I'm giving the subject its own chapter right up front.

Understanding Table Views

Table views ...