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If you have spent an appreciable amount of time using iOS on an iPhone the chances are good that you have interacted with a UIKit Table View object. Table Views are the cornerstone of the navigation system for many iOS 5 iPhone applications. For example, both the iPhone Mail and Settings applications make extensive use of Table Views to present information to users in a list format and to enable users to drill down to more detailed information by selecting a particular list item.

Whilst table views provide a popular mechanism for displaying data and implementing view navigation within applications, implementation has historically been a complex process. That has now changed with the introduction of storyboard support in Xcode. Xcode now provides a mechanism for visually implementing a considerable amount of Table View functionality with minimal coding. Such table views can be implemented as either static or dynamic depending on the requirements of the table and the nature of the data being displayed.