5. Creating Custom Views in Swift

Creating new views with interface builder

The easiest way of creating a custom view is to use interface builder to drag and drop the contents. This is typically done with a UITableView and a prototype table cell.

Creating a table view controller

Drag in the table view controller from the object library onto the main storyboard, and drag and drop from the tab bar controller to the newly created table view controller to create a relation segue called view controllers. (Segues are covered in more detail in the Storyboards, Segues, and Scenes section in Chapter 4, Storyboard Applications with Swift and iOS)

By default, the table view controller will have dynamic property content—that is, it will be able to display a variable number of rows. This is defined in the Table View section of the Attributes Inspector.

Note

There is an option for tables to have static content; a fixed number of rows in the table. This is sometimes useful when creating scrollable content that can be partitioned into slices...

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Swift Essentials

By : Alex Blewitt, Bandlem Limited

Swift Essentials

By: Alex Blewitt, Bandlem Limited

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