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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Core Data Part 2: Update, Delete Managed Objects and View Raw SQL Statement

December 23, 2012 By 26 Comments

This is the second article for our Core Data series. Previously, we gave you a brief introduction of Core Data and created a simple app to store all your device information. However, we only showed you how to insert records into data store through Core Data API and left out the update & delete operations.

In this tutorial, we’ll continue to work on the app and focus on the following areas of Core Data:

  • Updating or deleting an object using Core Data API
  • Viewing the raw SQL statement for debugging purpose

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How To Add Search Bar in Table View

July 8, 2012 By 56 Comments

One common questions I got about UITableView is how to implement a search bar for data searching. This tutorial will show how to add a search bar to the Tab Bar project. With the search bar, the app lets users search through the recipe list by specifying a search term.

Well, it’s not difficult to add a search bar but it takes a little bit of extra work. We’ll continue to work on the Xcode project we developed in the previous tutorial. If you haven’t gone through the tutorial, take some time to check it out or you can download the project here.

iOS App Search Bar
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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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Delete a Row from UITableView and Model-View-Controller

June 3, 2012 By 31 Comments

As said in the previous post, I have another question to answer before moving onto Storyboard tutorial.

How can I delete a row from UITableView?

This is another common question people raised when building the Simple Table App. Again, it’s easier than you thought. But before jumping into the coding part, I have to introduce you the Model-View-Controller model, which is one of the most quoted design patterns for user interface programming.

You can’t escape from learning Model-View-Controller (MVC for short) if you’re serious about iOS programming. Not limited to iOS programming, MVC is commonly used and quoted in other programming languages such as Java. If you come from other programming backgrounds, MVC shouldn’t be new to you.

Delete Row Featured Image

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How To Handle Row Selection in UITableView

May 6, 2012 By 31 Comments

If you’ve followed the iOS programming tutorials, I believe you should manage to create a simple Table View app with custom table cell. So far we focus on displaying data in the table view. But how do we know when someone taps on the table row? This is what we’ll cover in this post and show you how to handle row selection.

First, let’s revisit our app and see what we’ll add to it.

Simple Table App - Row Selection

There are a couple of changes we’ll try it out in this tutorial:

  • Display an alert message when user taps a row
  • Display a check mark when user selects a row

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Customize Table View Cells for UITableView

April 29, 2012 By 149 Comments

Previously, we have created a simple Table View app to display list of recipes with a pre-defined image. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to work on the app and make it even better:

  • Display different images for different rows – lastly, we display the same thumbnail for all rows. Wouldn’t be better to show individual image for each recipe?
  • Customize the table view cell – instead of using the default style of table view cell, we’ll take a look how to build our own.

Display Different Thumbnails

Before we move on to change the code, let’s revisit the code for displaying thumbnail in table row.

SimpleTable Image Code

Lastly, we’ve added a line of code to instruct UITableView to display “creme_brelee.jpg” in each row. Obviously, in order to show different images, we need to alter this line of code. As explained before, the “cellForRowAtIndexPath” method is called by iOS automatically each time before a table row is displayed.
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iOS Programming Tutorial: Create a Simple Table View App

April 22, 2012 By 87 Comments

Is it fun to create the Hello World app? In this tutorial, we’ll work on something more complex and build a simple app using Table View. If you haven’t read the previous tutorial about the iOS programming basic, check it out first before moving on.

First, what’s a Table View in iPhone app? Table View is one of the common UI elements in iOS apps. Most apps, in some ways, make use of Table View to display list of data. The best example is the built-in Phone app. Your contacts are displayed in a Table View. Another example is the Mail app. It uses Table View to display your mail boxes and emails. Not only designed for showing textual data, Table View allows you to present the data in the form of images. The built-in Video and YouTube app are great examples for the usage.
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