Question

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    // ...
    PlanetTableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"PlanetCell_ID"];
    return cell;
}

If your creating a custom UITableViewCell (in this case PlanetTableViewCell) is it acceptable to return that object via a method returning (UITableViewCell *), or is there something else I should be doing?

Answer 1

If your creating a custom UITableViewCell (in this case PlanetTableViewCell) is it acceptable to return that object via a method returning (UITableView *), or is there something else I should be doing?

You possibly meant:

to return that object via a method returning (UITableViewCell*),

If so, then it is perfectly legal and reasonable.

Indeed, your PlanetTableViewCell being derived from UITableViewCell, all instances of PlanetTableViewCell are also of the type UITableViewCell (is-a relationship in OOP).