why do programmers use configureCell:atIndexPath: method to config the tableView Cell

Question

Well till a couple of days back I use to code everything for UITableViewCell in

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAt         


        

Answer 1

[self configureCell:cell atIndexPath:indexPath];

it is simply just there to make your code clean and easy to read.

- (void)configureCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

you can call it anything but the majority choose to call it this way. This is because this method got pass in UITableViewCell object and indexPath object then it return the "configed" UITableViewCell which is then get return as a return object for

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

in otherword, you can use

- (void)configureCellXXX:(UITableViewCell *)cell atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

and call it using

 [self configureCellXXX:cell atIndexPath:indexPath];

and it would still work :)