Customizing the Table View

Further customize your tables by using a normal UIViewController and decoupling the table view. Figure 6-5 shows a partially translucent table set in the middle of a UIImageView. Listing 6-2 shows the table creation. It is built with a small frame, set with an alpha level of just 0.35, and added to the background as a subview. This kind of modification lets you break out of the “my application is the table, my table is the application” mindset and use scrolling tables more flexibly but again at a computational cost. Make sure you test on the iPhone to catch any performance issues introduced by your customization.

Figure 6-5. Tables can use translucency as shown in this highly customized table view.