Custom cell in UITableView iOS

Customizing a UITableViewCell can allow for very powerful, dynamic, and responsive interfaces. With extensive customization and in combination with other techniques you can do things like: update specific properties or interface elements as they change, animate or draw things in the cell, efficiently load video as the user scrolls, or even display pictures as they download from a network. The possibilities here are nearly endless. Below is a simple example of what a custom cell may look like:

This section covers the basics, and hopefully will be expanded to detail more complex processes like those described above.

Creating Your Custom Cell

First, create a new subclass of UITableViewCell (create a new Cocoa Touch Class in Xcode and set UITableViewCell as the superclass). Below is what your code may look like after subclassing.

Swift

class CustomTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
    static var identifier: String {return NSStringFromClass(self)
    }var customLabel: UILabel!override func awakeFromNib() {
 super.awakeFromNib()
 // Initialization code
 customLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: contentView.frame.width, height:contentView.frame.height))
        customLabel.textAlignment = .centercontentView.addSubview(customLabel)
}}