Using a UITableView subclass with a UITableViewController

Question

How can I tell my UITableViewController to use my custom UITableView subclass for it's tableView instead of a regular UITableView?

Extrauterine

Answer 1

Set the UITableViewController.tableView property to an instance of your custom UITableView subclass.

Continuative

let's say I do this in initWithStyle: after I set self = [super initWithStyle:style]. How do I know what changes -[UITableViewController initWithStyle:] made to its tableView? I might be undoing those. See #8513293 – Nautilus

Imho, the nicest place for this is to override loadView with something like self.tableView = [[MyTableViewSubclass alloc] init] or something of the sort. – Divisor

If you do that, make sure to set the delegate and dataSource too or your table won't load anything. – Plowman

Answer 2

In interface builder associate the tableview class with your custom tableview in the identity inspector view

Squall

Answer 3

A UITableViewController is just a UIViewController with a UITableView instance and the viewController set as the delegate and dataSource for the table. The viewController implements stubs for those delegate methods.

You can do it yourself by having a UIViewController implement the UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate protocols. Then in the UIViewController's loadView (or viewDidLoad) method set the tableView instance's dataSource and delegate to self.

You can use your own table subclass there.

Empoverish

This is misleading. UITableViewController also includes keyboard avoidance, for example. – Cookhouse

what is keyboard avoidance ? – Azzieb

when you have a text field inside a cell the table is resized when the keyboard comes up and the text field is kept in view. – Cermet

Not true, uitableviewcontroller doesnt have a view property. There are more differences – Felipafelipe