Question

I have this NSDictionary that I want to load into a table view. It should have a cell for each dictionary to have a cell for it. So 3 cells in this case.

friendsDictionary: (
        {
        name = Down;
        age = 15;
        birthday = Today;
    },
        {
        name = Charlie;
        age = 12;
        birthday = Today;
    },
        {
        name = Chris;
        age = 18;
        birthday = Today;
    }

Edit:

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"friendsList" ofType:@"plist"];
    NSDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
    NSDictionary *myDictionary = [dict objectForKey:@"friends"];
    self.friendsDictionary = myDictionary;
    [aDictionary release];

Answer 1

What you’ve got there is actually an NSArray filled with 3 NSDictionaries.

In your cellForRowAtIndexPath method you can reference your array (Assuming your array is a synthesized property) with self.friendsDictionary.

Therefore you can do [[cell textLabel] setText:[[self.friendsDictionary objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectForKey:@"name"]];

Check Apple’s sample code for TableViews for more information on how to set up your UITableViewController subclass. Remember to implement numberOfRowsInSection: and return [self.friendsDictionary count]