Announcing New Self-Sizing Table View Cells Pro Course!

Announcing Our New Pro Course: Self-Sizing Table View Cells!

AutoLayout makes it easy for your UITableView cells to grow when necessary — as long as you configure your table to expect this possibility!

In our new Self-Sizing Table View Cells Pro course, learn how to make your table view cells grow on their own, whether you are designing in UIKit or SwiftUI.

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Josh Steele:

Why should I take your Self-Sizing Table View Cells course?

"UITableViews are fundamental to most iOS apps, so it drives me bonkers to see a UITableViewCell that clips its data off or doesn't grow appropriately when the content changes.

It’s easy to add this functionality, no matter whether you’re using UIKit or SwiftUI. This course will walk you through the required changes — some of which you may have already implemented — to have your table view cells resize when needed."

What surprised you when making this course?

"Designing in SwiftUI was, unexpectedly, even easier, since the built-in formatting guidelines and rendering engine made it easy to interact with the layout system."

Can you please share a cool tip with us?

"Thanks to SwiftUI’s ability to handle underlying content changes, you simply need to have your bindings set up properly, such as with a @State property wrapper, to ensure your UI will re-render properly.

In other words, deciding when to shrink or grow the cells in your table is left to the underlying rendering system, which is really nice."

Is there anything else you'd like to share about self-sizing table view cells?

"In today's world of ever-changing data, the idea of static cell size is really a thing of the past. Be prepared to respond to changing data and changing display properties, such as Dynamic Type.

Your users will appreciate your app even more if it properly shows them what they want to see!"

Josh's Self-Sizing Table View Cells course is available for Professional subscribers now!

— Ray