Question

I have a UITableView which is backed by a NSFetchedResultsController. I would like to display a message on top of the list, e.g. “Showing items filtered by XYZ”. I tried inserting a UIView with a UILabel in it on top of the screen in the IB, but it doesn’t seem to work. Is this even possible to do what I want?

Answer 1

If you don’t use header on the table view, your can add a custom header on the top of your UITableView.

Implement this method :

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    UIView *myCustomView = [UIView alloc] init];
    //Add your label on myCustomView 

    return myCustomView;

}