How do you load custom UITableViewCells from Xib files?

Question

The question is simple: How do you load custom UITableViewCell from Xib files? Doing so allows you to use Interface Builder to design your cells. The answer app

Answer 1

What I do for this is declare an IBOutlet UITableViewCell *cell in your controller class. Then invoke the NSBundle loadNibNamed class method, which will feed the UITableViewCell to the cell declared above.

For the xib I will create an empty xib and add the UITableViewCell object in IB where it can be setup as needed. This view is then connected to the cell IBOutlet in the controller class.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)table
         cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    NSLog(@"%@ loading RTEditableCell.xib", [self description] );

    static NSString *MyIdentifier = @"editableCellIdentifier";
    cell = [table dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];

    if(cell == nil) {
        [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"RTEditableCell"
                                      owner:self
                                    options:nil];
    }

    return cell;
}

NSBundle additions loadNibNamed (ADC login)

cocoawithlove.com article I sourced the concept from (get the phone numbers sample app)