When I started doing iOS development, I first worked with Table Views. At the time, Collection Views had not yet been introduced. As you progress in iOS development, you will work with a lot of Table and Collection Views. You begin with just the basics to get them going and then you slowly progress into more advanced Table and Collection Views.
The reason that I bring this up is that, by the end of this chapter, you may feel as though things are not clicking. It is perfectly normal. But the more you go through the steps in these chapters, the more they will become second nature to you.
For those of you that have not done iOS development, Table Views are great for presenting a list of data. The iPhone's mail app is an example of what a Table View typically looks like.
In this chapter, we are going to work with our first Table View. In our Let's Eat app, users select a specific location to look for restaurants.
We will cover the following in this chapter...