The Programmatic UITableView Example

Implementing the UITableView without a Storyboard

Image of the completed project

This is a project that will help us to create a list of names as an iOS application, without the use of Storyboards. This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3

If you would rather have a video tutorial of this please do see the following rather natty embedded video: if not you can read on!

Create a New Project

Use Xcode’s menu to create a new project, making sure to choose Swift as the language and using UIKit. Here is a detailed guide covering the same ground

Removing the Storyboard

Select Main.storyboard and delete it from the project inspector Remove Main from the Main Interface part of the general tab (this can be selected by selecting the project name at the top-left of the Project Inspector) and then select and delete Main there.