Text under a UITableView cell

Question

The iPhone's settings application is build around a UITableview. In some views there are additional texts between cells. For example in "Settings" -> "General" -> "Network" there is the text "Using 3G loads data faster, but may descrease battery life" under a cell with an UISwitch. Any ideas how to implement this?

Images of what I mean can be found here:

http://www.tipb.com/2008/07/12/how-to-disable-3g-on-the-iphone-3g-for-more-talk-but-less-speed/

Answer 1

If you have a grouped table view, the tableView:titleForFooterInSection: method found in the UITableViewDataSource protocol and the UITableViewController class handles this for you:

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    if (section == 0) {
        return @"Footer text for first section, goes below cells in that group.";
    }

    return nil;
}

To place that text between cells, you have to have multiple sections and tell your tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method to place cells that you want beneath that text in the next section.