How to use UITableViewHeaderFooterView?

Question

Hi I want to use UITableHeaderFooterView in my app and i am doing this:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional          


        

Answer 1

UITableViewHeaderFooterView is one of the few places I would programmatically handle the view rather than use Storyboard or a XIB. Since you cannot officially use appearance proxy and there is no IB way to do it without abusing UITableViewCells. I do it the old-fashioned way and just use the tag on the label to fetch the custom elements.

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    UITableViewHeaderFooterView *headerView = [tableView dequeueReusableHeaderFooterViewWithIdentifier:kSectionHeaderReuseIdentifier];
    if (headerView == nil) {
        [tableView registerClass:[UITableViewHeaderFooterView class] forHeaderFooterViewReuseIdentifier:kSectionHeaderReuseIdentifier];
        headerView = [tableView dequeueReusableHeaderFooterViewWithIdentifier:kSectionHeaderReuseIdentifier];
    }

    UILabel *titleLabel = (UILabel *)[headerView.contentView viewWithTag:1];
    if (titleLabel == nil) {
        UIColor *backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        headerView.contentView.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
        titleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0f, 0.0f, 300.0f, 44.0f)];
        titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
        titleLabel.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
        titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f);
        titleLabel.tag = 1;
        titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:24.0f];
        [headerView.contentView addSubview:titleLabel];
    }

    NSString *sectionTitle = [self.sections objectAtIndex:section];
    if (sectionTitle == nil) {
        sectionTitle = @"Missing Title";
    }

    titleLabel.text = sectionTitle;

    return headerView;
}