Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
In iOS you are limited to two labels and an image for one of the standard table view cell styles. You might want more custom cells than this. You are not alone with other developers including, Instagram, Twitter, Feedly and even Apple often using more than the basic table view cell. You can customize table view cells and populate …
Table views on any mobile platform are the workhorse of any application. To be a good developer you need to make table views easily. Tables in iOS use the UITableView class to do so. This is a very powerful class with many features to make the tables you see in applications like Facebook, Instagram and …
While very versatile, there's some point where every developer finds table views lacking something: the cell format is too limited. Apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram don't use simple table views. They use custom table cell formats. In this lesson, we'll start learning how to make and use custom table view cells. Set Up the …
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It came to my attention this week there's a big change to Swift code on the way. It doesn't look big though: it is the difference between as and as!. The keyword as is the conversion operator. Usually type or class are easily defined like this: But there are times you get things like this …
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In an early post on this site, I wrote a table view tutorial. I decided to update that tutorial a bit for The Swift Swift View Controllers Book and add a bit more sophistication and depth. This tutorial deep dives in the subject. Both will remain on the site. In October 2016 I updated this for …
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