ObjectiveC: Creating Static TableView Tutorial

Step by step creating StaticTableView manually.
With StaticTableView in ObjectiveC, you can manually create fixed content in table layout. This page will give you tutorial how to create this one.

1Drag ViewController into the Storyboard.

2Add TableViewController into storyboard next to ViewController you added in previous step.

3Add ContainerView into ViewController you added in step 1.

4You will see that container automatically generate sub view container. Delete it.

5Hold Ctrl key and click container. Then drag to table view controller like this

6Click "Embed".

the result will be like this

7Change Table View type to static and remove separator by setting property like image below

8To add row in table, drag Table View Cell to Table View.

9You can configure the number of sections, header, footer as you want.

10Configure each cell property.

11You can set custom high of each cell like this

12Right click the project -> "New file".

13Create class MyStaticTableViewController base class of UITableViewController.

14Setup the Table View Controller of storyboard to be the class MyStaticTableViewController.

15Enable side-by-side code view by clicking button in the image below.

16Add IBOulet of object you want.

17You can initialize controls in ViewDidLoad method like this

18Delete the method numberOfSectionInTableView and numberOfRowsInSection.

19Build your code and try running it to see result.

What happens if I create very long static table view? 

No problem. You can 2 finger scroll on the trackpad through a long static UITableView in a storyboard.


Happy Coding!