How can I speed up a UITableView?

Question

I have a UITableView with about 400 cells in 200 sections and it\'s a little sluggish in responding to user interaction (scrolling, selecting cells.) I\'ve made sure the met

Answer 1

Just note these points..

1. Are you reusing the cells..Which is a good practice to do..
2. Make sure you are not doing any expensive calculations in cellForRowAtIndexPath callback, or in a function called from CellForRowAtIndexPath..
3. You said there is a background image. Another reason that you must reuse your cell.

Some good info about cell reuse is here..

EDIT : Found this page very late..

This SO question thread might help you...especially the accepted answer...