Put checkmark in the left side of UITableViewCell

Question

I want to make something similar to the WiFi settings page: when you tap the table cell, put a checkbox in the left side of the cell, and have a disclosure button accessory view on the right to show more details.

My question: is there a way to put the checkmark in the left side of a UITableViewCell without building a custom UITableViewCell ?

Answer 1

The answer is YES! You don't have to create a custom cell for that or add image views. To simulate checkboxes you only have to prepend a unicode symbol for a checkbox state to the cell text.

The unicode symbols I'm using for checkboxes are \u2705 for checked and \u2B1C for unchecked (nearly the same as \U0001F533 on iOS 5). iOS renders several unicode symbols as icons.

Here are some other symbols:

@"\u2611", @"\u2B1C", @"\u2705", @"\u26AB", @"\u26AA", @"\u2714", @"\U0001F44D", @"\U0001F44E"

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Imitating the Wi-Fi settings page (with UITableViewCellStyleValue1):

cell.textLabel.text = @"\u2001 Wi-Fi 1";
cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"\U0001F512 \u268A";

cell.textLabel.text = @"\u2001 Wi-Fi 2";
cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"\U0001F512 \u268C";

cell.textLabel.text = @"\u2713 Wi-Fi 3";
cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"\U0001F513 \u2630";

Answer 2

Of course you can do that :) For example use UITableViewCellStyle

UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
// Simple cell with text label and optional image view
//(behavior of UITableViewCell in iPhoneOS 2.x)

...and put a custom "checkmark" image in that "optional image view".

Answer 3

In Swift you can press Command + Ctrl + Spacebar to show emoticons and special characters or you can copy this ✓ ✔️