Custom Cell is never nil (NOT using storyboard) - ios

Question

at the Moment i have the following classes:
My Problem is that my Custom Cell Class "GTNewsCustomCell" is never called, i set some breakpoints in the .m file but nothing happend, than i realized that in my "cellForRowAtIndexPath" the cell is never nil!
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
static NSString *CellIdentifier1 = #"NewsCell";
GTNewsCustomCell *newsCell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier1];
if(newsCell == nil){
newsCell = [[GTNewsCustomCell alloc]initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier1];
}
newsCell.titleLabel.text = [[self.newsList objectAtIndex:indexPath.section]objectForKey:#"title"];
NSAttributedString *attString = [[NSAttributedString alloc]initWithString:[[self.newsList objectAtIndex:indexPath.section]objectForKey:#"previewMessage"]];
newsCell.messageTextView.attributedText = attString;
return newsCell;
}
And here is a little part of my Code from my GTNewsCustomCell.m:
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier
{
self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
self.messageTextView.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.messageTextView.backgroundColor = GTDefaultTextBackgroundColor;
self.messageTextView.editable = NO;
self.messageTextView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
self.messageTextView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
NSString *htmlTag = #"<b></b>";
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#%#",htmlTag,self.messageTextView.attributedText];
NSData *data = [html dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
CGFloat fontSizeMultiplier = 1.1;
CGFloat const DTCoreTextDefaultFontSize = 12.0;
NSString * fontName = #"Helvetica";
DTCSSStylesheet* css;
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(#"7.0")){
css = [[DTCSSStylesheet alloc] initWithStyleBlock:#"ul li{padding-left: -10px;}"];
NSMutableDictionary *options = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:fontSizeMultiplier], NSTextSizeMultiplierDocumentOption,
fontName, DTDefaultFontFamily,
#"purple", DTDefaultLinkColor,
#"red", DTDefaultLinkHighlightColor,
css,DTDefaultStyleSheet,
[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES],DTUseiOS6Attributes,
nil];
.
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Here are some screenshots from my xib Files for more information:
My GTNewsTableViewController:
GTNewsCustomCell (FilesOwner):
GTNewsCustomCell (View):
GTNewsCustomCell:

Answer 1

Okay, since you're doing the registration of cells via tableView's method registerNib:forCellReuseIdentifier:. The initWithStyle:reuseIdentifier: won't ever get called. If you'd like to do the styling, use -awakeFromNib method of your UITableViewCell subclass.
- (void)awakeFromNib {
[super awakeFromNib];
self.messageTextView.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.messageTextView.backgroundColor = GTDefaultTextBackgroundColor;
self.messageTextView.editable = NO;
self.messageTextView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
}

Answer 2

with GTNewsCustomCell (FilesOwner), you will not be able to reuse this cell if needed. you should make it NSObject(FileOwner). and load this cell in cellForRowAtIndexPath.
by this way , you will get the same style of of your custom cell.
static NSString *CellIdentifier= #"CustomCell";
CustomCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
NSArray* nibViews = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"CustomCell"
owner:self//transfer ownership to self
options:nil];
cell = [nibViews objectAtIndex:0];
}
return cell;
}