How to add UISWitch to few rows in UITable in iOS? - ios

Question

I have a UITableView which contains so many rows.In my screen there can be UISwitch added for few rows in UITableView.Please tell me how can i do this?
Should i create a custom cell with a UISwitch & show or hide the UISwitch.
Should i add the UISwitch directly from the code in cellForRowAtIndexPath:.
Any suggestions please?
EDIT:
I have tried this code but this does not work.
SettingsCell *cell;
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"SettingCell";
if (cell == nil)
{
cell = [tableView
dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier
forIndexPath:indexPath];
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault];
[tableView setSeparatorStyle:UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleSingleLine];
}
if(indexPath.row==2 || indexPath.row==3)
{
cell.switch_value.hidden=false;
}
else
{
cell.switch_value.hidden=true;
}
cell.label_text.text = [VALUES objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
return cell;

Answer 1

If you are creating a new cell then you should use that cell for only required rows. For rest of the rows you should not take pain of hiding the switch.
If you create UISwitch directly from the code in CellForRowAtIndexPath, then you should take care while re-using the cell. If you use different identifier for both cell types, the show/hide problem will get resolved.

Answer 2

Both solutions work here : you can add an UISwitch in a UITableViewCell in cellForRowAtIndexPath: : be just careful to check that no previously created UISwitch exists before creating a new one.
The second solution consists in using a custom UITableViewCell subclass.
I prefer this solution because you don't have to cast your subviews or use viewWithTag: method, or even to check if your custom subview was already created.
You should create some simples subclasses, such as PickerCell, SwitchCell, TextFieldcell : thus you will have your own set of custom UITableViewCell subclasses ready to be used within all your projects.
Assuming you have registered your reuse identifier, try this :=
// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *SettingCellIdentifier = #"SettingCell";
static NSString *StandardCellIdentifier = #"StandardCell";
if (indexPath.row == 2 || indexPath.row == 3) {
SettingsCell *cell = (SettingsCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:SettingCellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault];
[tableView setSeparatorStyle:UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleSingleLine];
cell.label_text.text = [VALUES objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
// Do whatever you want with the switch here
return cell;
}
else
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:StandardCellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];
// instantiate a regular UITableViewCell
cell.label_text.text = [VALUES objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
return cell;
}
}