Slick's UITableView Series

BrianSlick · January 2010

I would post these here, but the last time I tried something like this, the forum limited the number of images allowed in a thread. So I'll just link to my blog.

UITableView Overview Presentation

Please note: Many images are broken due to the death of MobileMe. I'm updating/relocating posts as I have time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UITableView How-To: Part 1 - View Controller Setup
UITableView How-To: Part 2 - Search
UITableView How-To: Part 3 - Multiple Sections
UITableView How-To: Part 4 - XIB-Based Cells
UITableView How-To: Part 5 - More About XIB-Based Cells
UITableView How-To: Part 6 - Inserting, Deleting, and Reordering Cells
Part 7 - ?? Passing data to sub-view controllers

More?

Updates as I write them. Feel free to post requests, but I'm not promising anything. Can't say how quickly I'm going to write the other parts, either.

Please post questions or problems about these tutorials here in this thread, and not in the blog comments. It's too hard to troubleshoot there.

rocotilos · January 2010

Good stuff.. very detailed.
I've never use Tableview before, so this is a good reading! Thanks!

Drudoo · February 2010

when is the search bar coming out? could use that one :D

BrianSlick · February 2010

Added Part 2...

KennyChong · March 2010

BrianSlick;176526 said:
Added Part 2...

Hi Brian, awesome stuffs. Great work! Cheers, Kenny

DenVog · June 2010

BrianSlick;176526 said:
Added Part 2...

When is Part 5 of the UITableView tutorials coming out?

I need to let users reorder rows in a table (this works fine now on screen), and save that order so that items are displayed in that order the next time the user comes back to the table.

I thought displayOrder was the answer, but that seems to be for Core Data only. My table is just loading up an array with the names of a bunch of plist files.

PS - Enjoyed Part 2 for Search. Much simpler and better explained than some other tutorials I've read.

BrianSlick · June 2010

Considering how long it is taking me to do part 3, it might be a while.

The overview presentation talks a little bit about insert/delete.

You will need to track your own sort order parameter.

Kets · August 2010

Honestly i can't wait till you make the other 4 parts! :D Really!

BrianSlick · August 2010

I know. I'm on a self-imposed blogging ban until I get the new version of my app done.

BrianSlick · February 2011

Well, it's been almost year since the last update, and SlickShopper 2 still isn't done. So I'm going to stop kidding myself, and try to crank out a few blog posts.

So, part 3 is now available (changed my mind about the order). Enjoy.

BrianSlick · March 2011

Added part 4. Topic is bigger than I thought so I'm splitting it into 2 parts.

BrianSlick · March 2011

Added Part 5.

maverick0 · March 2011

Good Stuff. My suggestion:

Part 8 - Connecting with SQLite for main view and sub view data sources
Part 9 - Maintaining Checklists

iSDK · March 2011

Just had a quick look at the 5th part of your tableview tutorials. They indeed look very confusing, and would do so even more for someone new to iPhone Development.

I just wanted to share an easier way of creating custom tableviewcells.

1. Declare a cell in the .h. (IBOutlet)
2. Create a UITableViewCell in IB.
3. Hook up any IBActions to buttons/labels etc... Save & Quit.
4. Create if statements in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method. These if statements would determine what cell has what text in its labels.
5. Return that cell for the indexPath.

Does that seem easier, and are there any faults with this method?

iSDK

BrianSlick · March 2011

What distinction are you making compared to what I showed?

iSDK · March 2011

Im just trying to convey that my way would initially be quicker and faster, but your way is a lot more detailed and a lot more in depth, but a lot more difficult.

BrianSlick;313305 said:
What distinction are you making compared to what I showed?

BrianSlick · March 2011

No, I mean, what's different? You seem to be describing what I did.

BrianSlick · March 2011

I genuinely would like to know what is faster about what you are suggesting. I'm always interested in better techniques.

Brandt · April 2011

May I suggest a section detailing exclusive selection with a checkmark accessory?

I see many posts where people mention the repeating checkmark problem for re-usable cells, with no definitive answer...

BrianSlick · April 2011

Yeah, I can do that. But a quick summary:

if (cell == nil)
{
   // Do anything that will be the same on EACH cell here
}

// Do anything that could be different on each cell here.

return cell;

For the second part, you have to assume that the cell you are getting is incorrectly configured, and then take steps to re-configure it. If you are only doing if (whatever) {checkmark}, then you aren't making the proper assumptions. It needs to be an if/else case. if (whatever) {checkmark} else {no checkmark}.

iSDK> Can I assume the reason you've never responded is that you realized you were talking about the wrong post, and were in fact describing exactly what I showed?

bjornst · May 2011

I'm pretty new to the iphone development and i have question about tableviews.

I need to build a start view witch is build like a profile. This is a tabbar app and when the user has logged in the person will see his photo and name and so on. This will take about 30% of the screen. Then i want to add a tableview below that. This tableview will display a RSS feed with the latest news from a site in it. So is it possible to mix this or should i try to use a 2 section tableview instead? Where i design the first section to hold the info about the profile with picture then the 2nd section that will display the RSS feed?

Best Regards

Bjorn

BrianSlick · May 2011

That's a design decision. The only thing the table view cares about is the data that you make it care about.

Jules · January 2012

I also have a question: Could you please either make a tutorial or give a short explanation on how the navigation bar works? The Tutorials that are out there are mostly not really helpful, because they are way too old. As you may have guessed I'm having problems adding a back button to my navigation bar which is a little bit frustrating.

BrianSlick · January 2012

Navigation controllers haven't changed significantly ever, and they haven't changed at all since iOS 3. So there really isn't such a thing as an outdated navigation controller tutorial.

They also are not inherently related to table views in any way, so I'm not sure why you chose to bump this thread.

BrianSlick · March 2012

Added part 6.

romma · March 2012

Hi Brian, could i request a tutorial about TableView.
The essence is to make a tableview that will save data ( history/cronology like) from camera (uiimagepicker).
Because atm im tryng to make an app powered by ZBar its a bar code scanner, and the main problem is to make a history of scanned codes.
here is how to make a simple app using ZBar
Hope u will choose my request, tnx in advance.

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