Table Views in iOS 12 Quick Guide

Table Views in iOS 12

Swift 4.2 | iOS 12

Learn how to use Table Views to present information to the user in an iOS application. After reading this guide, you will know how to create dynamic and static tables, how to set and sort the content of a table, how to create custom cells, how to control selection, and how to perform a search.

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With this guide, you will learn how to use Table Views to present information to the user in an iOS application. After reading this guide, you will know how to create dynamic and static tables, how to set and sort the content of a table, how to create custom cells, how to control selection, and how to perform a search.

Table of Contents

Tables

Table Views

Table View Cells

Table View Protocols

Index Path

Implementing Table Views

Selection

Sections and Indexes

Custom Cells

Table Views and Navigation Controllers

Adding Rows

Deleting Rows

Moving Rows

Table View Controller

Refresh Control

Static Tables

Search Bar

Examples

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Listing 1: Feeding the table with data

Listing 2: Taking advantage of the elements in a standard cell

Listing 3: Selecting items

Listing 4: Defining sections

Listing 5: Assigning a specific height to the headers

Listing 6: Changing the background color of the cells

Listing 7: Creating the index

Listing 8: Creating a general index

Listing 9: Finding the nearest section

Listing 10: Defining a subclass of UITableViewCell for a custom cell

Listing 11: Working with custom cells from the view controller

Listing 12: Building a model with an array for the cells and a dictionary for the details

Listing 13: Opening the detail view when a cell is selected

Listing 14: Showing the details for the selected row

Listing 15: Deselecting the selected row

Listing 16: Adding items to the AppData structure

Listing 17: Updating the table

Listing 18: Storing new items and updating the table from the ViewController class

Listing 19: Calling the saveItem() method from the AddItemViewController class

Listing 20: Removing the selected item

Listing 21: Activating and deactivating the editing mode

Listing 22: Responding to the Delete button

Listing 23: Creating our own actions

Listing 24: Reorganizing the model when a cell is moved

Listing 25: Managing the table from a subclass of the UITableViewController class

Listing 26: Presenting a Refresh Control

Listing 27: Defining the content of static cells

Listing 28: Filtering the data

Listing 29: Processing the input from the search controller

Listing 30: Expanding the model to work with a scope bar

Listing 31: Adding a scope bar

Links

UITableView

UITableViewCell

UITableViewDelegate

UITableViewDataSource

NSIndexPath

UITableViewController

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