Q&A

Q. How do I know when to use a table view versus a collection view?

A. Your first resource for questions like this should always be Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. After that, always try and opt for the most minimal interface that will suit your needs—it’s easier to start small and expand than it is to shrink it later.

Q. Are trees just as easy to bind as table and collection views?

A. They are fairly easy to bind, but you need to make sure that you can represent your data as a tree, which often takes a little more work and sometimes involves a translation step between your real data source and the source you bind to your tree.