TableView with multiple prototype cells - ios

Question

I had a simple question regarding a table view with 3 different kinds of prototype cells. The first two occur just once while the third occurs 4 times. Now what I'm confused about is how to specify in my cellforRowatindexpath which cell prototype to use for which row. So, I want something like for row 0, use prototype 1, for row 1, use prototype 2, for rows 3,4,5 and 6 use prototype 3. What's the best way to do this? Do i give each prototype an identifier and then use dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier ?
Can you'll provide some sample code?
EDIT:
Still not working. This is the code I have at the moment. ( I only have one case for the switch statment because I just want to test and see if the cell is being generated in the first row or not, but currently table view is blank)
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
switch(indexPath.row)
{
case 0: {static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"ACell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView
dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"ACell"];
if(cell==nil) {
cell=[[UITableViewCell alloc]
initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyleDefault) reuseIdentifier:#"ACell"];
}
return cell;
break;
}
}
}
Acell is my identifier for a cell prototype that I created. I

Answer 1

If you are using three prototype then use three identifiers. Because only one identifier will cause problem. And you will get wrong result. So code like this.
if(indexPath.row==0){
// Create first cell
}
if(indexPath.row==1){
// Create second cell
}
else{
// Create all others
}
You can use switch case also here for best performance.

Answer 2

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
CustomCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"cell"];
if (cell.tag == 0)
{
return array1.count;
}
else(cell.tag == 1)
{
return array2.count;
}
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString *cellIdentifier;
NSString *membershipType = [membershipTypeArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
if ([membershipType isEqualToString:#"silver"]||[membershipType isEqualToString:#"gold"])
{
cellIdentifier = #"cell";
}
else if ([membershipType isEqualToString:#"platinum"])
{
cellIdentifier = #"premiumCustomCell";
cell.customCellImageView.image = [cellImageArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
}
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
if (!cell) {
cell = [[CustomCell alloc]initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
}
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
cell.headingLabel.text = [titleArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
}

Answer 3

Here i wrote code like:
#pragma mark == Tableview Datasource
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
return 2;
}
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
NSInteger nRows = 0;
switch (section) {
case 0:
nRows = shipData.count;
break;
case 1:
nRows = dataArray1.count;
break;
default:
break;
}
return nRows;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
NSString *cellIdentifier = #"cellIdentifier1";
NSString *cellIdentifier1 = #"cellIdentifier2";
SingleShippingDetailsCell *cell;
switch (indexPath.section) {
case 0:
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
//Load data in this prototype cell
break;
case 1:
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier1];
//Load data in this prototype cell
break;
default:
break;
}
return cell;
}