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Horizontal scrolling UITableView

Can I have a UITableView scrolling horizontally in the iPhone landscape mode ?

This is how it looks like now: http://cl.ly/95xZ

This is how it should be: http://cl.ly/93IY

I was wondering if I should use a UIScrollView for the landscape mode and therefore to switch between UITableView and UIScrollView depending on the orientation of the device…

thanks

Answer 1

To implement horizontal scrolling you should use UIScrollView and manage its subviews manually. It’s not very hard as it sounds. There are several videos from WWDC about technics which you can use to work with scroll view. They are worth watching.

Advanced ScrollView Techniques at
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2011/104/
Designing Apps with Scroll Views at
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2010/104/

Very simple example, how to show scrollView when user rotates device to landscape:

//header
// tableView and scrollView has the same superview
// scrollView is placed above tableView
@property(nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITableView *tableView;
@property(nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIScrollView *scrollView;


//implementation
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    // Return YES for supported orientations
    return YES;
}

- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration { 
    [UIView animateWithDuration:duration 
                     animations:^(void) {
                         if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation)) {
                             self.scrollView.alpha = 1.0f;
                         } else {
                             self.scrollView.alpha = 0.0f;
                         }
                     }];
}