Making UITableView look more like a “conventional” table, with multiple columns

Question

I have a pretty much standard UITableView, but I would like to change it to look like what would be considered a normal table outside iOS development -- make it hav

Answer 1

What you're looking for us UICollectionView.

Answer 2

Use some third-party classes that allows you to have "Grid Views".

One is my OHGridView class, another is NRGridView, and there are many more. If your app needs to be compatible with iOS4 and/or iOS5, using a third party class (or building one yourself) is the only option.

Under iOS6, there will be some other stuff that allow you to do that directly (iOS6 still under NDA so we can't talk about it publicly yet, but go read the API Diff files in the developer.apple.com website if you have access to them). So if your app is intended to be compatible only starting iOS6+ and you don't need support for iOS5, this could be the solution and you should go read about it if you have a developer account with access to the iPs6 SDK.