Chapter 2

How the Table Fits Together

In this chapter, you’re going to take a whistle-stop tour of table views and the elements from which they’re built. Although this chapter does not present a lot of code, it will provide a useful foundation later, when you start to customize table views.

Along the way, you’ll look at the following:

• The types and styles of table views
• The anatomy and dimensions of table views
• UITableView’s relationship to the UIScrollView superclass
• Creation of table views in code and with Interface Builder
• Use of the UITableViewController class to take advantage of its template methods