Question

Often I see layouts on the iPhone like the one I attached.

How is this done best? With Interface builder or programmatically? How do i add a subview to the UITableView without occluding the actual table cells (i.e how do i set a margin to have space for subviews)?

Using Xcode4.2.

Answer 1

A tableView has a header and footer and every section has those too.

to set the tableview’s hear and footer (in my screenshot green), do:

[self.tableView setTableHeaderView: headerView];
[self.tableView setTableFooterView: footerView];

for header and footer for sections (blue), youl’ll have to implement

-(UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section

and

-(UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section

The code of the shown program you’ll find at github