A UITableViewController abstracts some things. It seems like maybe what you want to do is to separate things out and have a little more granular control.
You can do this fairly easily. You need 3 things to make this happen:
UITableViewUITableViewDataSourceUITableViewDelegate
A UITableViewController puts these all together for you. We'll have to create them ourselves.
To do this, we make a View Controller, and inherit UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate
class Example: UIViewController {
}
// MARK - UITableViewDataSource
extension Example: UITableViewDataSource {
// We need to implement some methods here
}
// MARK - UITableViewDelegate
extension Example: UITableViewDelegate {
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
// Handle the user clicking an item here
}
}
Three things left to do:
- Create and show the table
- Get the data to display in the table
- Implement the delegate methods
Creating the table
You should decide if you want to completely programatically create a UITableView, or have Interface Builder lay one out for you in a .xib, and you just link it up via an IBOutlet.
Assuming you want to do the former, you can do the following:
var table: UITableView?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
table = UITableView(frame: view.bounds)
view.addSubview(table!)
table?.delegate = self
table?.dataSource = self
}
Get the data
When you push this view controller from your previous view controller, be sure to set a variable on this view controller with your data. Assuming you have an array, it's as simple as something like:
exampleViewController.myData = someArray;
navigationController?.pushViewController(exampleViewController, animated: true)
(be sure to create the myData variable in your View Controller to take this)
Implement the delegate methods
Now we can implement the delegate methods to show the data. You may already be familiar this, but for the sake of completeness:
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return myData.count
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
// You should really use dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier here.
var cell = UITableViewCell()
cell.textLabel!.text = myData[indexPath.row]
return cell
}
