In this recipe we will learn how to create a subclass of the UITableViewController class, and use it to populate a UITableView controller.
The UITableViewController classes are a perfect way of providing you with the flexibility to manage a table view, and providing the functionality of adding to our base controller the ability of sharing its inheritor classes. For this to happen, we will need to incorporate the methods for a UITableView class.
To begin, we will need to create a new Xcode project. This can be achieved by performing the following simple steps:
- Create a new Single View Application project and name it
TableViewExample. - Next, select the
TableViewExamplefolder, select File | New | New File… or press command + N. - Select the Objective-C class template from the list of templates.
- Click on the Next button to proceed to the next step in the wizard.
- Enter
TableViewControlleras the name of the file to create. - Ensure that you have selected UITableViewController as the type of subclass to create from the Subclass drop-down menu.
- Ensure that the Targeted for iPad checkbox is not checked.
- Ensure that the With XIB for User Interface checkbox is not checked.
- Click on the Next button to proceed to the next step of the wizard.
- Click on the Create button to save the file to the specified folder location.
What we have done here is add a new TableViewController class to our TableViewExample application that provides us with the necessary table view methods we can use to interact with the TableView control.
- The Adding a table view to a view controller recipe
- The Using Xcode to create an iOS project recipe in Chapter 1, Getting and Installing the iOS SDK Development Tools