Pro iOS Table Views for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Chapter 7

Selecting and Editing Table Content

Although some situations can be handled with read-only tables, you don't need to look too far to find others where tables need to be adaptable. Building tables that can handle selection and rearrangement—and can insert, update and delete new rows—is a common requirement.

In this chapter, we'll look at

• How to handle selection of rows in your tables
• How tables can be built to handle rearrangement of their data
• How tables can be used to create, edit, update, and delete items from their underlying data models

A Recap of the Model-View-Controller Pattern

Before getting into the mechanics of selecting, inserting, and deleting with a table view, you'll need to understand how these changes affect the ...