Page reloading in iPhone Application - iphone

Summary of the issue:
When I am loading some data into my iPhone application from a webservice, it populates the tableview two times with double number of records. I found that Viewdidload method is called two times causing this issue.
Scenario
From the first view I parse the webservice and collect the data into an array object.
This array object is being used by the second view to populate the tableview.
I am wondering what is behind reloading of the page causing the tableview has double number of records. Hope somebody can give me a hint.

You may want to consider calling applicationDidFinishLaunchingWithOptions in your app delegate, as this is only called during launch.

Thanks for the tips. What I found the issue was the way adding the view. i replaced [self.view addSubview:trlist.view] with [self presentModelViewController:trlist animated:NO]; and now it loads only one time.

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Next, you need to determine what the actual issue is.
1 - is self.tableView a proper reference to the table? Are you properly maintaining the reference?
2 - is the table actually reloading but using the old data, or is it not reloading at all? You can log the willDisplayCell method to see what is going on when the view appears.
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