Learning iOS Development: A Hands-on Guide to the Fundamentals of iOS Programming

Introduction to Table Views

Table views are a workhorse for iOS. Even if an app does not use them for the main scenes, you are still likely to use them for preferences or an About screen. They provide all the infrastructure to show small or large numbers of individual data items that optionally use a hierarchy to view and/or edit detailed information. Yet using them for the simplest case requires only a few key classes and methods.

Figure 8-1 shows the basic parts of a table view. The table contains a number of individual table view cells, for items 2 through 12. It also has support for scrolling through and selecting cells. Other possible functionality includes adding headers and footers, sections, section headers and footers, and an index. ...