Question

I’ve been wondering about UITableView‘s and their cells for a while. UITableView is a very handy UIView subclass, but there is a lot of predetermined/forced content on a UITableViewCell. I was wondering what is the best way to create a custom UIView (which will end up being a UITableViewCell) for UITableView?

The cell has a certain style that has to be set and there are predetermined UILabels and accessory views that are completely immutable, other than their contents. I find this to be a big waste, but just giving the cell a custom content view (and background view, if one pleases) doesn’t prevent or remove these processes or restore the memory.

Is there any way to create a lighter version of a UITableViewCell subclass? Or is there a way to use a UIView with a selection method instead (other than essentially creating a custom UITableView using UIScrollView)?

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

There doesn’t seem to be an answer for this. UITableViewCells will always have UILabels and other views automatically added to them. I’m not sure if they are allocated before you set them, though. They may have custom setting / allocation methods.