iPhone UITableView. How do turn on the single letter alphabetical list like the Music App?

Question

In the iPhone music app, selecting Artist, Songs, or Albums presents a tableView with a verticl list of single letters at the righthand side of the UI that enables rapid scr

Answer 1

If you're using MonoTouch, override the SectionIndexTitles(UITableView) method in the UITableViewDataSource class. Just return an array of strings and the subclass takes care of the rest.

class TableViewDataSource : UITableViewDataSource
{
  public override string[] SectionIndexTitles(UITableView tableView) 
  { 
    return new string[] { /*your string values */};
  }
}

*just a hint for those of us using C# and Mono (.NET) to write iPhone apps. :)