The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Recipe: Creating Checked Table Cells

Accessory views expand normal UITableViewCell functionality. Check marks create interactive one-of-n or n-of-n selections, as shown in Figure 9-3. With these kinds of selections, you can ask your users to pick what they want to have for dinner or choose which items they want to update.

Figure 9-3 Check mark accessories offer a convenient way of making one-of-n or n-of-n selections from a list.

To check an item, use the UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark accessory type. Unchecked items use the UITableViewCellAccessoryNone variation. You set these by assigning the cell’s accessoryType property.

Cells have no ...