Create Static Table View Using Storyboard

March 20, 2013 By 8 Comments

After we published the iCloud programming tutorial, the first question from our readers is not about iCloud but related to the static table view. If you’ve followed our tutorials, you should have a basic understanding about table view. However, the table views that we’ve covered are of dynamic content. The “Add Note” controller that we built in the previous tutorial, on the other hand, makes use of the static table view. If you have problem with static table view, this tutorial is for you. We’ll show you how to create static table view using Storyboard.

To illustrate how easy you can use Storyboard to implement static table view, we’ll build a simple Setting screen. Static table views are ideal in situations where a pre-defined number of data items to be displayed. A setting screen is an obvious use of static table view.

Static Table View Demo App
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iOS Programming 101: Customize UITableView and UITableViewCell Background using Storyboard

January 6, 2013 By 25 Comments

In the last tutorial of our iOS Programming 101 series, we showed you how to customize the navigation bar and buttons with your own background image. This time, we’ll look into the customization and styling of UITableView and UITableViewCell.

If you’ve followed our iOS tutorials from the very beginning, you know we’ve written a tutorial about customizing table view cell using Interface Builder. In this tutorial, we’ll do something different. Instead of using Interface Builder to tweak the UITableViewCell, we’ll show you how to use Storyboards to style the cell. Storyboards make customizing table cells much easier with the introduction of prototype cell. In brief, you’ll learn the following stuffs in this tutorial:

  1. Customizing UITableViewCell using Storyboard
  2. Style UITableViewCell and UITableView with your own background images

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Introduction to Core Data: Your First Step to Persistent Data

December 15, 2012 By 12 Comments

Editor’s note: After we published the tutorial about saving data in plist file, some readers asked about Core Data and how we can use it to save persistent information. This week, we work with Ziad Tamim, an independent iOS developer, to give you an introduction of Core Data and work with you to build a sample app using Core Data.

This tutorial talks about persistence on iPhone (or other iOS devices). What I mean by persistence is to make data that’s in your apps stay around between application launches. Persistence lets users store persistent data and also retrieve it, so that users don’t have to reenter all their data each time they use their applications. There are multiple ways to store data in iOS devices but most of them aren’t good enough to store a complicated data. They are usually used to save settings or to preload some data such as “Property List” and “Archiving Objects”. So that’s why we’ll go through Core Data to see how you can utilize it to manage data in database.

The focus of the tutorial is to provide a practical introduction of Core Data framework. I expect you’ve already gone through our tutorials about Storyboard and UITableView. I will not give in-depth explanation about how to create view controller in Storyboard but you can always refer to the earlier tutorials to gain better understanding.
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Storyboard Tutorial: Create Tab Bar Controller and Web View

June 25, 2012 By 33 Comments

This is the third article of the Storyboards series. Last time, we discussed how to pass data between view controllers with segue. It should be easy, right? Now let’s continue to polish our Storyboard project and see how you can create to two other common UI elements in iPhone apps.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

  • How to Create a Tab Bar Controller
  • How to Create an About page using UIWebView

If you’re new to Storyboards, I suggest you to check out the first tutorial. All the materials discussed in this material are based on the work we’ve done before.
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Storyboards Segue Tutorial: Pass Data Between View Controllers

June 17, 2012 By 106 Comments

This is the second article of our Storyboards series. In the first tutorial, we introduced the Storyboards, which is a friendly feature in Xcode for designing user interface. If you’ve followed the tutorial from start to end, you should already build a simple recipe app with navigation interface. But we left one thing that was not discussed: data passing between scenes (i.e. view controllers) with segue.

First, let’s take a quick look at what we’ve accomplished. Previously, we learnt to use Storyboards to build a few things:

  • Embedded a normal view controller in navigation controller
  • Created a table view and populate a list of recipes
  • Switched from one view controller to another view controller using Segue

And, this is the final deliverable. When the app is launched, it displays a list of recipes. Tap on any of them will bring you to another view, that supposes to display the details of recipes.
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Use Storyboards to Build Navigation Controller and Table View

June 15, 2012 By 53 Comments

By now, if you’ve followed our tutorials, you should have a basic understanding about UITableView and how to build a simple app. This week, we’ll talk about something new – Storyboards. This is one of the most exciting features introduced in Xcode 4.2 and iOS 5 SDK. It makes your life, as an iOS developer, simpler and lets you easily design the user interface of your iOS app.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Storyboards to build a Navigation interface and integrate it with UITableView. We try to keep thing simple and focus on explaining the concept. So no fancy interface or pretty graphic. We’ll leave the artwork to future tutorials.

Okay, let’s get started.
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