Adding multiple views to a container view - ios

Question

I am looking at adding numerous TableViews to an existing UI View Controller.
I have seen https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers.html which seems to be the way I'm meant to go.
However, my question is can I embed more than one TableView to a single ContainerView?
My app does a variety of tests for which there are results. After each test completes I want to add a TableView so they appear underneath each other neatly.
Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes you can. You can do two things:
ONE View Controller - MANY Table Views (as subview of the root view)
or
ONE Container Controller - MANY ChildViewControllers using VC containment (and each has one Table View )

Answer 2

This is what you could do in ViewDidLoad for a UIViewController subclass.
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
CGRect frame = self.view.frame;
// this container shall hold the two tables that I am going to add later
// container shall share the same size as view controller's "view"
UIView *container = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
frame.size.height = frame.size.height / 2; // I want to fit two table view vertically to cover the container view
UITableView *tableView1 = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
tableView1.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
// ...
// ...
// Assign more table view properties here
// ...
// ...
[container addSubview:tableView1];
frame.origin.y = frame.size.height; // update coordinates for the second table view
UITableView *tableView2 = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
tableView2.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
// ...
// ...
// Assign more table view properties here
// ...
// ...
[container addSubview:tableView2];
[self.view addSubview:container];
you shall have to set Delegates for all tableviews to make them work properly, but this should give you something to get going. (I have added some different background colors to distinguish between both the tableviews)