ios - Create UITableView programmatically in Swift

Question

I try to implement UITableView programmatically without use of xib or Storyboards. This is my code:

ViewController.swift

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let table: UITableViewController = MyTableViewController()
        let tableView: UITableView = UITableView()
        tableView.frame = CGRect(x: 10, y: 10, width: 100, height: 500)
        tableView.dataSource = table
        tableView.delegate = table

        self.view.addSubview(tableView)
    }
}

MyTableViewController.swift

import UIKit

class MyTableViewController: UITableViewController {

    override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        NSLog("sections")
        return 2
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        NSLog("rows")
        return 3
    }

    override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        NSLog("get cell")
        let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Value1, reuseIdentifier: "Cell")
        cell.textLabel!.text = "foo"
        return cell
    }  
}

But when I run app, all I get is empty table. In log I see a few lines of sections and rows, but no get cell. How can I fix this code to get table with 6 lines of foo text?

Answer 1

Note: As you mentioned you just started programming in Swift. I created a tableView programmatically. Copy and paste below code into your viewController and run the project...

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {

    private let myArray: NSArray = ["First","Second","Third"]
    private var myTableView: UITableView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let barHeight: CGFloat = UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame.size.height
        let displayWidth: CGFloat = self.view.frame.width
        let displayHeight: CGFloat = self.view.frame.height

        myTableView = UITableView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: barHeight, width: displayWidth, height: displayHeight - barHeight))
        myTableView.register(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "MyCell")
        myTableView.dataSource = self
        myTableView.delegate = self
        self.view.addSubview(myTableView)
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        print("Num: (indexPath.row)")
        print("Value: (myArray[indexPath.row])")
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return myArray.count
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "MyCell", for: indexPath as IndexPath)
        cell.textLabel!.text = "(myArray[indexPath.row])"
        return cell
    }
}

Output: