The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Dequeuing Cells

Your data source responds to cell requests by building cells from code, or it can load its cells from Interface Builder (IB) sources. Here’s a minimal data source method that returns a cell at the requested index path and labels it with text derived from its data model:

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- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)aTableView     cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {     UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView         dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"cell"         forIndexPath:indexPath];     cell.textLabel.text =         [dataModel objectAtIndexPath:indexPath].text;     return cell; }

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