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Asked: 2026-06-15T15:33:41+00:00

not as much of a programming question as a design question… I have a

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not as much of a programming question as a design question…

I have a tableviewcontroller and I want to show a list of Artists and Albums.

Easy enough, but I want to show a “detail” page for both the Artist and Albums.

With a hierarchy of (Artist->Album), you select an Artist and then the list of Albums are displayed. Then you can select Album details.

But, I also want to also be able to see Artist details.

So, I had 2 ideas and wanted to get some suggestions.

  1. On the Album details, include a button/link/something and say “show Artist details”. I don’t like this too much though…

  2. Don’t use a hierarchy and have a long list of:
    (Sorry can’t get the formatting correct here:)
    LINE1: Artist ABC
    LINE2: Album 123 by Artist ABC
    LINE3: Album 234 by Artist ABC
    LINE4: etc.

This gets a bit long, but kinda like it better.

Or Three: Use #2 idea, but indent the Album text a bit to show that they are related to the parent.

In the apps that I have, I haven’t seen a common UI for this…any suggestions?

thx!

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  1. Editorial Team

    My idea would be to use the usual UINavigationViewController hierarchy and add one of these typical ⓘ-info-buttons to the right side of each artist/album cell.
    Now when you are in the Artists list, show the detail page just when the user taps that ⓘ and show the list of an Artist’s albums when the user taps anywhere else in a cell.

    Another possibility would be to show an UIBarButton for the Artist’s details in your UINavigationItem of the artist’s albums list.

    Hope this helps

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