What calls tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath

Question

All the cells in my table are blank. I noticed that tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath is not being called, which I think is causing this to happen. What calls this method?

Answer 1

The tableview calls its datasource methods. In order for cellForRowAtIndexPath: to be called, there needs to be rows in the tableview, which the method numberOfRowsInSection is for.

Hop on over to the Apple documentation on the UITableViewDataSource protocol.