Pro iOS Table Views for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

✍ Scribed by Tim Duckett (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you're an iOS app developer, chances are you'll be using table views in your development projects. Table views are the bread and butter of iOS apps. With them, you can create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces.

Table views are one of the most complex components found in UIKit. While using them for boring standard user interfaces is quite simple, customizing them can become really challenging.

Pro iOS Table Views takes a task-oriented focus to assist you when implementing customized table views. Although it delves deeply into the Table View API, you can always decide in which level of detail you want to dive in. It's aimed to be a great reference and customization cookbook at the same time, useful for beginners as well as intermediate developers.

• Covers the entire Table View API in depth
• Covers customization and performance topics in depth
• Task-oriented reference with multiple levels of detail

Note: source code for this title is currently available for download at: https://github.com/timd/Pro-iOS-TableViews

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Table Views from the Ground Up....Pages 1-24
How the Table Fits Together....Pages 25-42
Feeding Data to Your Tables....Pages 43-62
How the Cell Fits Together....Pages 63-81
Using Tables for Navigation....Pages 83-111
Indexing, Grouping, and Sorting....Pages 113-143
Selecting and Editing Table Content....Pages 145-181
Improving the Look of Cells....Pages 183-211
Creating Custom Cells with Subclasses....Pages 213-239
Improving the Cell’s Interaction....Pages 241-288
Table Views on iPad....Pages 289-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-322

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general