UITableView inside a UITableViewCell? What’s the best design?

[jcdmb]

I've not found a answer to this question anywhere, but this seems like a typical problem: I am dynamically (from a xml file) creating a view to display "Questions" I take from the XML file. I am having problems to display multiple choice questions. I am trying following approach:

Question 1
MultipleChoiceQuestion 2
--First Option
--Second Option
--Third Option
Question 3
Question 4
MultipleChoiceQuestion 5
--First Option
--Second Option
and so on...

So, my Idea is: I have a first UITableView and row for each "normal" question , and a second UITableView for each "Multiple Choice" question that should be loaded into a row from the first UITableView as I showed before.

Is this a good approach or you guys have a better design pattern for this issue?

Thanks a lot!

[fiftysixty]

That approach is bound to run into serious problems, so I suggest scrapping it. If you have nested table views (or scroll views, more generally) then the scrolling behavior of the views will be erratic. A better solution is to use variable height table view cells: you just create the cell view to hold all the multiple choice options you need, and implement

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

in your table view delegate to supply the heights of the cells.

[jcdmb]

Thanks for the answer, I've done that. I also used a grouped table view with one group per question, including the chosable answers for my design. Now is everything perfect. Thanks again dude!