Question

I’d like to know if someone there in the community has ever implemented 2 UItableView in on single view, I’ve searched a lot trough google but i’m not sure if I’m using the correct words. What I need is lo look like as the Facebook menu where shows 2 table views, here is an screenshot of my idea. Any ideas/tutorials/blogs you can provide me will be useful, Thanks a lot!

http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/119/Purple/eb/62/0a/mzl.uvhmahke.320×480-75.jpg

Answer 1

UITableView is simply a subclass of UIScrollView, which is a subclass of UIView, so, yes, you should be able to have more than one tableView in a single view. The only ‘gotcha’ with this is that your delegate and datasource callback methods for the table views need to either be broken out explicitly in each method (using if(tableView.tag == 0) or something) or either have completely different objects be the datasource and delegate callback methods. The tableviews don’t care where they are located.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    if(tableView.tag == 0){
        //do something for first tableView
    }
    else{
        //do something for other tableView
    }
    return cell;
}

The image you posted does not have two tableViews in a single view. It looks like there are two tableViews in two separate views, which would more than likely have completely different delegate and datasources.