UITableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier Theory

Question

When apple developed the UITableView for the first iPhone they had a problem in performance when scrolling through it. Then one clever engineer discovered that

Answer 1

The purpose of dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier is to use less memory. if we use 100 cells in a tableView then need to create 100 cells every time.It reduce the app functionality and may cause crash. For that dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier initialise the particular number of cells that we created and the cells will use again for further processing.

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *TableIdentifier = @"YourCellIdentifier";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:TableIdentifier];

    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:TableIdentifier];
    }

    ExternalClassTableViewCell *myCell = [[ExternalClassTableViewCell alloc]init];
    myCell.MyCellText.text = [tableData objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    myCell.MyCellImage.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];

    return cell;
}