Professional iPhone® and iPad™ Database Application Programming

Chapter 3. Displaying Your Data: The UITableView

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Customizing the TableView by creating your own TableView cells

• Searching and filtering your result sets

• Adding important UI elements to your tables such as indexes and section headers

• Avoiding and troubleshooting performance issues with your TableViews

The focus of the book thus far has been on how to get your data on to the iPhone and how to access that data on the device. This chapter focuses on how you can enhance the display of your data by customizing the TableViewCell. It also examines how to make your data easier to use by adding an index, section headings, and search functionality to the UITableView. In the next several sections, you take a closer look at how to use the TableView to display your data in ways that make it more useful to your target audience.

CUSTOMIZING THE TABLEVIEW

You begin by taking a look at the default TableView styles that are available in the iPhone SDK. Then, you learn the technique of adding subviews to the content view of a TableViewCell. In the event that neither of these solutions meets your needs for customizing the display of your data, you will examine how to design your own TableViewCell from scratch using Interface Builder. If you had trouble with IB in the previous chapter, now is a good time to review Apple's documentation on using IB, which you can find at http://developer.apple.com/.

TableViewCell Styles

Several pre-canned styles are available to use for a TableViewCell ...