Cell customization in iPhone Application - iphone

Question

I want to make a table view in my iPhone Application.. In that table each shall contains 1 image, some text of line, some symbols, etc.. I don't now how to customize our cell of table. Please provide some help if you have..

Answer 1

I think you can use a default UITableViewCell to do what you described by initializing the Cell (in - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath ) with the proper UITableViewCellStyle
e.g.:
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
}
// Set up the cell...
return cell;
}
which gives you:
"A style for a cell with a left-aligned label across the top and a left-aligned label below it in smaller gray text. The iPod application uses cells in this style."
Also every kind of UITableViewCell has an image-property by default.
but here are some tutorials for building custom cells:
Custom UITableViewCells with Interface Builder
http://iphone.zcentric.com/2008/08/05/custom-uitableviewcell/

Answer 2

You can create a cell in Interface Builder. Start with a UITableViewCell which acts like a view, and then add a UIImage, one or more labels, whatever containers to hold your symbols, etc.
Then in your cellForRowAtIndexPath, load the nib and fill in the picture and labels, etc.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
MyTableCell *cell = (MyTableCell *) [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = myTableCell; // get the object from the outlet
myTableCell = nil; // make sure this can't be re-used accidentally
}
// Set up the cell...
cell.myViewController = self;
// set up image and labels here
return cell;
}