Data Binding versus Data Source

Data Sources can play a massive part in building and even (programmatically) designing a UITableView. In this section, we'll look at how to best perceive a UITableViewDataSource in a way that makes understanding why it works the way it does much clearer.

Then, we'll take a look at a comparison of how we achieve the same thing in SwiftUI.

UIKit – multiple Data Sources

First of all, we must ask the question, why would we want multiple UITableViewDataSource? One of the many reasons is simply its reusability.

As we saw in the previous section, we have to conform to the UITableViewDataSource delegate and override multiple functions, just in order to get our table to load some data...