Comments on: Don’t use UITableViewController. Really.

By: Marcel Bradea

Marcel Bradea — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:40:06 +0000

Great post. Exactly the advice I was bouncing around in my head looking at UITableViewController. Comes way too prepackaged and rigid.

Cheers!

By: C.j.d

C.j.d — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:02:41 +0000

Hello,Skylar
Thank you for your post,it very helpful.
But I had problem when I change to use UITableView included UIViewController from using UITableViewController.
When I init a NavigationController with a UITableViewController,if NavigationController.view.frame’s size was changed,UITableViewContoller’s tableView also changed itself automaticlly,but UIViewController.tableView’s size do not change.
For example,I create a view like this:
rootViewController(adBannerView,navigationController)
navigationController(viewController)
viewController(datePicker,tableView)
ps:a(b) means a include b
so when I change adBannerView’s position,I need resize navigationController.view.size to let adBannerView do not cover the tableView.
Anyone can help me?This problem really confused me very much…

By: Genmenor

Genmenor — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:51:45 +0000

Merlin,
UITableViewController is just not so much generic. But if serves you, why cant use it?

By: Raci

Raci — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:55:36 +0000

Definitely I agree, but UITableViewController has some benefits. Thus I would say UITableView gives you more control.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:15:52 +0000

*Thank you* for this post. I was wondering if I’m stupid, or there is really very little benefit to using UITableVIewController.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:25:07 +0000

Hi James – There is example code for exactly what you described – an embedded UITableView inside a UIAlertView – in the book iPhone SDK 3 Programming by Maher Ali. I just happened to check it out today and found that.

By: James

James — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:31:23 +0000

Skylar,

Seeing that this blog is a little older, I am hoping you might still be able to help me out. I have an app that is already working, but in the always striving for a better one, I am wanting to add this UIAlertView with and embedded TableView to one of my UIViews, which presently already uses UIAlertViews to allert the user to an error if one occurs. that being said, I am feeling a bit slow, as I can’t for the life of me figure out how to integrate your example into my app.

the details…

What I want to do, is to retrieve MetaData from dropBox Cloud Server, and post to an Array (TableView) the available files for backup, depending on how often someone backs up, there could be many or just a few depending on the preferences of the user. when they select the appropriate file, I want them to be able to just select the file and have the alert view pass the notification to the download method.

you mentioned that this code is easily reusable, but I don’t see it, am I missing something? I have followed your example app, and see that you have created an app to supply data to the TableView, but I am still a bit lost. can you dumb it down for me, or explain in better detail where to put the code when integrating to an existing app..

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:59:00 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial. I was so hung-up on the background image trick not working out so well with a UITableViewController and your solution helped me get it to work.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:27:25 +0000

Hi I have find one case where we just can use the UITableViewController, when we have a UIViewController and inside a UIScrollViewController and try to add a UIViewController with UITableView inside the UIScrollView we hack a crash, in this case we have just one option: use UITableViewController

If you have any other option to this case, i will be very glad.

Best.

PS: I comment two because the first my email is wrong, if you answer please use this email

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:48:56 +0000

Hi Will Homer,
I’ve tried as you said but it doesn’t work in my case.
I’ve initialized the tableViewController in my AppDelegate and passed it to the TabController with the method -initWithRootController.
I’ve tried to add the NavBar both in -viewWillAppear and -viewDidLoad. In the first case I obtain a full screen navbar, in the second just the tableView.
Tried also with the system here but the navbar scroll within the tableView :http://dlinsin.blogspot.com/2010/01/adding-uinavigationbar-to-uitableview.html