Shared or sub UIViewController concept in iPhone programming

Question

I have (at least) two views which have the same table view but other stuff around, depending on how the user navigated in the app. Ideally, I would like to have a generic table view and controller which other views and controllers could, for lack of a better term, "include". This would then allow me to encapsulate all the table view and controller logic within one file, so I don't have to duplicate code and logic between different views. Hopefully this question makes sense. How do achieve this?

Answer 1

Create a UITableViewController subclass, and stick all of your table datasource and delegate methods in there. ( Of course conforming to UITableViewDelegate protocol )

Declare it as a singleton, and then assign it as an ivar to each of your other view objects.

From there, you can share a managed tableview object.

I hope this helps.