adding a UITableView programmatically to a UIViewController

Question

I\'m loading a UIViewController into one of my Nav controller\'s hierarchies, which will contain some text and some images. At the bottom, I will want to create a expandable and

Answer 1

Yes, you can create a UITableView whose delegate, datasource, and parent view are not necessarily a UITableViewController. Since the UITableView is a UIView, you can add it as a subview of any other UIView. Any NSObject can be the delegate or datasource, as long as you implement the required protocol methods.

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController  

In fact, in my experience, not many people even use UITableViewControllers. When was the last time you wanted your table view to take up the entire usable space? In general, I create a plain old UIViewController and add a UITableView as a subview of its view, in addition to other subviews.