iOS Reproduce a view n times - ios

Question

I have a static UITableViewController who has 3 what I call Widgets in them. These widgets display data about a game (score, players etc).
In one of my widget I want to display all the players and there icon. I don't know how many players need to be set because this depends on the result the server gives me.
So what I want is to add N times a UIView for all the players the servers returns. I had an idea to do this in a UITableView, but I read somewhere that I cannot add a UITableView inside a TableViewCell.
I would like to be able to make a "Dummy" UIView inside IB and copy and add this for the amount of players or isn't this possible?

Answer 1

I would recomend you to do it in code, it's easy you can create subclass on UIView and you can add UIScrollView. You can override initWithFrame to accept array with yours views:
-(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame data:(NSArray*)myViews
{
if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame])
{
_viewsArray = myViews;
self.scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] init];
self.scrollView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.scrollView setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
[self addSubview:self.scrollView];
for (int i = 0; i < _viewsArray.count; i++)
{
// This view (v) needs to initialised base on your array content
id obj = _viewsArray[i];
UIView *v = [[UIView alloc] init];
[self.scrollView addSubview:v];
}
}
return self;
}
The last bit left to do is set up a frame for views and scrollView and contentSize in layoutSubviews:
-(void)layoutSubviews
{
[self.scrollView setFrame:self.bounds];
// change your views frames if you need
[self.scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width, _viewsArray.count * VIEWHEIGHT)];
}