How to insert items to a UITableView when a UIButton is clicked in iOS

Question

I have been practicing with tableViews but I cannot figure out how to insert new items when a button is clicked.

This is what I have:

BIDViewControlle

Answer 1

You're on the right track. Make sure you're setting your delegate and data source correctly and your outlet is wired to the button.

Edit: Also fairly certain you can't just @"blah" strings into a mutable array. Try initializing the text as an NSString first, and then pass it in as a pointer.

Answer 2

You are doing it right,

- (IBAction)addItems:(id)sender {
    // I thought it was as simple as this, but it doesn't work
    [self.names addObject:@"Brad"];
    [self.tableView relaodData];
}

is the correct way.

Please double check the variable tableView, I can't see the declaration of it.

make sure you have,

@property(weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableView *tableView;
[self.tableView setDelegate:self];
[self.tableView setDataSource:self];

and properly connected the tableView to .nib