Horizontal UITableView

Question

I want implement a layout in my ipad application that has a uitable view that scrolls left and right rather then up and down :

So rather than

row 1 row 2 row 3 ( scrolling vertically ) It would be : row 1, row2, row 3 (scrolling horizontally )

I've seen that UItableView is designed to only do vertical scrolling so doing a transform does not give the desired effect. Is there a standard way to do this taking advantage of a datasource provider like uitableview provides?
I basically want to do somthing similar to what the BBC News reader app ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bbc-news/id364147881?mt=8 ) on the Ipad does with the list of stories to select from.

Thanks

Answer 1

For now you have to use UIScrollView and set scrolling to horizontal only. As for the data you need handle the dequeing and optimizations yourself. If you do not expect more than a dozen or so objects then you can probably skip it, but if they are data intensive try to implement a similar data sourcing and loading as UITableView uses. Note that the BBC News reader app also uses paging enabled to scroll by each 'page (4 or so news icons)'.

Answer 2

This question has been answered by apple. Scrolling example by apple

Demonstrates how to implement two different style UIScrollViews. The first scroller contains multiple images, showing how to layout large content with multiple chunks of data (in our case 5 separate UIImageViews).

this works for iPad also.