Question

Does anyone know how to implement an action badge, like the ones seen below with the price tags in them. The App Store has those too.

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Answer 1

The easiest way is to set the accessoryView of a standard UITableViewCell to a UIView. You can just make them be standard UIButtons, set their background color and the label color and font.

If they’re not meant to be interactive, then you can use a container UIView with a UIImageView in the background and a UILabel in the front added as subviews.

If you want to get fancy with it you’ll have to subclass UITableViewCell and lay out the various bits yourself. It’s not that difficult. The TableViewSuite sample code shows you how.