Creating some UITableViewCells with a main label and a secondary detail label (as we allready knew from the e.g. settings menu on the iPhone) to show some kind of a selected value isn’t very complicated but annoying anyway. The ways to do that were either to create a label as subview programmatically or you used the Interface Builder to provide a nib file including the cell.
This common task was greatly facilitated by the introduction of the new iPhone SDK 3.0, which now supports a few styles for UITableViewCells (see UITableViewCellStyle for more information). The following example shows how to create such a simple table cell:
//create a cell with the style UITableViewCellStyleValue1 UITableViewCell *cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue1 reuseIdentifier:@"yourReuseIdentifier"]; //the main label will be shown on the left side [cell.textLabel setText:@"mainLabel"]; //the detail label will be shown on the right side //in blue color, right-aligned and in a smaller font size [cell.detailTextLabel setText:@"detailLabel"];
The result of this will be something like that:
