Question

How can we display #of items in a category displayed in a particular UITableViewCell?
For example, in iPhone mail app, they show # of new emails in each account..

Thanks
Jignesh

Answer 1

Simply customize your UITableViewCell (see here) and add a custom UILabel as a subview of your cell so it displays on the right.

If you want to make this UILabel to look like the ones in Mail, this is quite simple, as you may try sthg like this:

countLabel = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(140,10,60,24)] autorelease];
countLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
countLabel.layer.backgroundColor = [UIColor grayColor].CGColor;
countLabel.layer.cornerRadius = countLabel.bounds.size.height / 2;
countLabel.masksToBounds = YES;
[cell.contentView addSubview:countLabel];

countLabel.text = [categoryItems count];

(Note: to use the layer property of UILabel, don’t forget to add the QuartzCore framework and #import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>)