How to add a button to the right hand side of a UITableView entry?

Question

I am working on an in app purchase app. I would like fill a table view with a list of products, and put a BUY button on the right hand side of each entry. Does anyone have the UITableView - fu necessary to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Create a custom class that extends UITableViewCell

@interface CustomTblCell : UITableViewCell

In the corresponding NIB CustomTblCell.xib drag and drop UILabel and UIButton elements (side-by-side).

Finally, in your method -(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath initialize and return the CustomTblCell

Hope this helps!

Here is a code snippet for the cellForRowAtIndexPath: method I mentioned above

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    static NSString *CustomCellIdentifier = @"customCellIndentifier";

    CustomTblCell *cell = (CustomTblCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CustomCellIdentifier];
    if(cell == nil){
        NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"CustomTblCell" owner:self options:nil];
        cell = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
    }

    cell.label.text = @"My Product";
    return cell;
}

If you have many rows in your table such that the user has to scroll through the table use 'dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier`. This optimizes the code to reuse the same customTblCell object which is now not in user view. The deque method takes a String as input arg (customTableCellIdentifier). Make sure this matches the Identifier string you specify in the IB while creating the CustomTblCell