Summary

This was a long and difficult chapter. But the UITableView is arguably iOS’s most difficult, yet most important, view. If you do not understand the UITableView and its associated classes, you do not understand iOS programming. In this chapter, you learned how to use a UITableView and implement a table view’s delegate and data source in a custom class. You also learned how to group a table and how to index it. And you learned how to customize a table cell’s appearance.

After learning how to implement a table and customize it, you then learned a technique for adding a table to a navigation controller contained in a tab. This was a long task, but as it is such a ubiquitous layout pattern, it is a necessary task. After learning this technique, you then learned how to add, move, and delete rows from a table.