How to add a UIView above a UITableView in iOS?

Question

I am using the xcode template to create a UITableView application with UINavigationController.

I need to add a UIView (at fixed position) between the UINavigationBar and the UITableView. How to do that ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do this by setting the UITableView's tableHeaderView property.

UITableView class reference

tableHeaderView

Returns an accessory view that is displayed above the table.

@property(nonatomic, retain) UIView *tableHeaderView

Discussion The default value is nil. The table header view is different from a section header.

Availability Available in iOS 2.0 and later.

Answer 2

Add UIView and UITableView as subviews of UIView and then position their height, width and x, y position from the Size Inspector in Interface builder or Use CGRectMake in objective-c

Answer 3

you need to implement following UITableview delegate methods

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section