Question

In my application,I need to load different .xib in different tableView cells depending upon the category of data which I’m getting from parser. I wanted to ask that is it possible to create different .xibs belonging to same class as it’ll reduce the load as I have almost 13 categories so 13 .xib files.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you mean that you’d want to have several NIBs for the same view controller then it’s most certainly possible. In fact that’s how application localization is done. You can then load the specific NIB when you initialize your controller.

NSString *nibName = @"DefaultNibName";
if (someCondition) {
     nibName = @"SomeOtherNib";
}

YourViewController *controller = [[YourViewController alloc] 
                                 initWithNibName:nibName bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];