Many iOS applications show the user a list of items and allow the user to select, delete, or reorder items on the list. Whether it’s a list of people in the user’s address book or a list of items on the App Store, it’s a UITableView doing the work. A UITableView displays a single column of data with a variable number of rows. Figure 10.1 shows some examples of UITableView.
In this chapter, you are going to start an application called Homepwner that keeps an inventory of all your possessions. In the case of a fire or other catastrophe, you’ll have a record for your insurance company. (“Homepwner,” by the way, is not a typo. If you need a definition for the word “pwn,” please visit www.urbandictionary.com.)
So far, your iOS projects have been small, but Homepwner will grow into a realistically complex application over the course of nine chapters. By the end of this chapter, Homepwner will present a list of Possession objects in a UITableView, as shown in Figure 10.2.
Create a new iPhone Window-based Application project and name it Homepwner.