iOS- mimic system default tableView header - iphone

Question

I want to mimic programatically the exact look of this header:
So far, my best try was:
UILabel* header = [[UILabel alloc] init] ;
header.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
header.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
header.textColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithRed:86 green:92 blue:112 alpha:0.1];
header.shadowColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
header.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(1,0);
header.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18];
But it's looks like this:
Can someone please help me with the exact way to do that?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

A Norvegian guy has written a blog post about this a while ago: http://www.gersh.no/posts/view/default_styling_of_sections_headers_in_uitableview_grouped
All credits go to him for the code.
- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {
UIView *containerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 40)];
containerView.backgroundColor = [UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];
CGRect labelFrame = CGRectMake(20, 2, 320, 30);
if(section == 0) {
labelFrame.origin.y = 13;
}
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:labelFrame];
label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
label.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:17];
label.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1.0 alpha:1];
label.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1);
label.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.265 green:0.294 blue:0.367 alpha:1.000];
label.text = [self tableView:tableView titleForHeaderInSection:section];
[containerView addSubview:label];
return containerView;
}

Answer 2

EITHER
You need to set header.frame = CGRectMake(10,1, 100, 18 );
OR
Use Datasource method of UITableView
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return #"Header"; // just pass name of your hearder
}
EDITED:
-(UIView*)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20)];
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(50, 2, 100, 18)];
label.text= [self.listOfHeader objectAtIndex:section];
label.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
label.textAlignment=NSTextAlignmentLeft;
[view addSubview:label];
return view;
}
And also add
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return 20;
}

Answer 3

What you can do it calculate the width of your UILabel dynamically/programmatically. Using this code :
CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(296,9999);
CGSize expectedLabelSize = [yourString sizeWithFont:yourLabel.font
constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize
lineBreakMode:yourLabel.lineBreakMode];
Then add 10 pixle to the width you get. Set the frame of your UILabel. And, set it following way :
header.frame = CGRectMake(0.0,5.0,expectedLabelSize.width + 10.0,expectedLabelSize.height);
header.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;