Improving our application through Table Views

Table Views are an essential component of iOS and an extraordinarily simple way to separate data on screen and give the user an easy way to sort through piles of information.

There are a couple of ways that we can present Table Views on screen, with each offering benefits in specific scenarios. In this recipe, we'll discuss several ways in which we can improve our application through Table Views.

Note

A Table View is a single column of information presented on an iOS device as a list of a set of two or more rows.

Getting ready

Table Views are one of the most common ways to go about designing an application on iOS, with prominent applications such as Music and Contacts being built on the view type. For this recipe, it will be useful to have an iOS device to hand along with some scratch paper to quickly sketch out table flow charts as well.

How to do it...

In their iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Apple offers suggestions on which types of Table Views...