FavoriteThings

A simple iOS app that displays a list of favorite things in a table view.

Step 1: Add a view controller in a navigation controller to the app

• Create a UIViewController called FavoriteThingsViewController
• In the AppDelegate didFinishLaunching method initialize a UINavigationController with a scoreViewController instance as the rootViewController
• Make the navigationController the rootViewController of the window.

Test Step 2: Add a button that changes text

Note: This is just for the test. We're going to delete this code once we're done

• Add a UIButton and UILabel as properties on the new viewcontroller class
• Initialize and put the button and label on the screen
• Set the button's title to "Press me" for control state normal
• Set the label's text to "Change me"
• Add a function that changes the label's text to "Thanks for changing me"
• Add self as target to the button with the new method as the selector

Step 3: Clean up the view controller

• Remove the button and label from the view

Step 4: Add a tableview to the view

• Add a UITableView as a property on the viewController class
• Initialize and add the tableView as a subview of the main view

Step 5: Create a new tableViewDatasource

• Create a NSObject subclass called FavoriteThingsTableViewDataSource
• In the header file, adopt the UITableViewDataSource protocol
• Add the required UITableViewDataSource methods to the implementation file
• Write a method that returns an array of strings (these can be your favorite things)
• In numberOfRows return the count of your array method
• in cellForRowAtIndexPath return a cell with the textLabel.text set to the string at indexPath.row from the array method