How to reuse UIViews, the way UITableView does?

Question

I want to create a view that shows vast amounts of data. Using UITableView would have been a good idea except it's not the way/style I want to show it. I'm thinking of creating my own view, and I was wondering: UITableViewCell is constantly being reused through the dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier method; how does this work? I mean, I can figure out how to cache UIViews, but how does UITableView draws them on the table, allowing them to still be interactive, without keeping the UIViews themselves?

Thanks! Aviad.

Answer 1

Apple's ScrollViewSuite sample code shows how to create a tiled UIScrollView that reuses views very much like a table view. You could use it as a model or starting point.