MonoTouch UITableViewController and TableFooterView - iphone

Question

I'm trying to develop a small iPhone application using MonoDevelop (v2.8) and MonoTouch (v4.2.2).
My home screen is represented by a UITableViewController which use a UITableView for presentation. I want to fill the UITableView.TableFooterView (which is a UIView object) with some other controls (two labels and two buttons).
To do this I have created a "subview" called SearchView, which is represented by a UIViewController and use a simple UIView for presentation. I assign this view as footer view of the tableview.
public partial class HomeScreen : UITableViewController
{
public override void ViewDidLoad()
{
base.ViewDidLoad();
SearchViewController searchViewController = new SearchViewController();
this.TableView.TableFooterView = searchViewController.View;
}
}
Is this right?
It is right to assume that usaually you create a view (UIView) and consume it by a UIViewController ?

Answer 1

- (void)loadView {
[super loadView];
sBar = [[UISearchBar alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,30)];
sBar.delegate = self;
[self.view addSubview:sBar];
you can add subviews like this ,sbar is the search bar,u can also add any controllers like button ,labels ,textview,textfield in it.

Answer 2

In your UITableViewDataSource you can override public virtual UIView GetViewForFooter(UITableView tableView, int sectionIndex)
public override UIView GetViewForFooter(UITableView tableView, int sectionIndex)
{
// Write a method to get the proper Section via the sectionIndex
var section = GetSection(sectionIndex);
if (section != null)
{
if (section.FooterView == null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(section.FooterText))
{
// Create your FooterView here
section.FooterView = CreateFooterView(tableView, section.FooterText);
}
return section.FooterView;
}
return null;
}
As of iOS 5 you will also need to override
public virtual float GetHeightForFooter(UITableView tableView, int sectionIndex)
and return the height of the FooterView