ios - UITableViewController inside a UIViewController

Question

I'm new to iOS and objective-C and I'm having some trouble in understanding how controllers work.

In my code I have a UIViewController (with my custom controller assigned by storyboard) and inside it, together with other objects, I want to have a table handled by a different controller. What is the right way to do this?

Answer 1

You can make that table view controller a child view controller of your UIViewController.

In the storyboard, you can do this easily by dragging a container view into your controller's view, and that will give you a child view controller automatically.

You'll want to:

• delete the child view controller it gives you (it's just a UIViewController)
• drag out a table view controller
• control drag from the container view to the table view controller
• choose "embed".

If you need to get a reference to this table view controller from the UIViewController, you can do that in prepareForSegue -- the table view controller will be the segue's destination view controller, and prepareForSegue will be called right after the controllers are instantiated.