iPhone - Table/Grid Data

Question

For an iPhone app, I'm going to need to display read-only tabular data in a grid format. This data could potentially have many rows and columns.

I could use UITableView, but the problem is the data will most likely be very wide and require scrolling.

Is there a way to put a UITableView in a UIScrollView and allow zooming and scolling x and y, but still take advantage of reusable UITableView cells? I assume putting a huge UITableView in a UIScrollView would not take advantage of the cell reuse (virtualization).

Or am I better off using UIWebView and a HTML table?

Answer 1

A webView with HTML tables would likely use more memory, but end up being a lot easier to code and debug than 2D cells inside a tableView inside a scrollView.

Another option for a really large table might be a tiled scrollView where you only render the visible tiles (and release and/or reuse the offscreen tiles).