How to set the UITableView Section title programmatically iPhone iPad

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I ve created a UITableView in Interface Builder using storyboards  The UITableView is setup with static cells and a number of different sections   The issue I m having is that I m trying to setup my app in several different languages  To do this I need to be able to change the UITableView section titles somehow   Please can someone help me out  Ideally I d like to approach the issue using IBOutlets however I suspect this isn t even possible in this case  Any advice and suggestions would be really appreciated   Thanks in advance

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titleForHeaderInSection is a delegate method of UITableView so to apply header text of section write as follows   -  NSString   tableView  UITableView   tableView titleForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section                return   Hello World

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I don t know about past versions of UITableView protocols  but as of iOS 9  func tableView tableView  UITableView  titleForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  String  is part of the UITableViewDataSource protocol      class ViewController  UIViewController           IBOutlet weak var tableView  UITableView         override func viewDidLoad              super viewDidLoad            tableView dataSource   self                  extension ViewController  UITableViewDataSource         func tableView tableView  UITableView  titleForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  String             return  Section name                 You don t need to declare the delegate to fill your table with data

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Note that - NSString   tableView  titleForHeaderInSection  is not called by UITableView if -  UIView   tableView  UITableView   tableView viewForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section is implemented in delegate of UITableView

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-  CGFloat tableView  UITableView   tableView heightForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section      return 45 0f     set height according to row or section   whatever you want to do      section label text are set   -  UIView   tableView  UITableView   tableView viewForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section       UIView  sectionHeaderView           sectionHeaderView     UIView alloc  initWithFrame                               CGRectMake 0  0  tableView frame size width  120 0          sectionHeaderView backgroundColor   kColor 61  201  247        UILabel  headerLabel     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame                              CGRectMake sectionHeaderView frame origin x sectionHeaderView frame origin y - 44  sectionHeaderView frame size width  sectionHeaderView frame size height         headerLabel backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor        headerLabel setTextColor kColor 255  255  255        headerLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentCenter       headerLabel setFont kFont 20         sectionHeaderView addSubview headerLabel        switch  section            case 0              headerLabel text     Section 1               return sectionHeaderView              break          case 1              headerLabel text     Section 2               return sectionHeaderView              break          case 2              headerLabel text     Section 3               return sectionHeaderView              break          default              break             return sectionHeaderView

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Use the UITableViewDataSource method   -  NSString   tableView  UITableView   tableView titleForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section

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Once you have connected your UITableView delegate and datasource to your controller  you could do something like this  ObjC -  NSString   tableView  UITableView   tableView titleForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section        NSString  sectionName      switch  section            case 0              sectionName   NSLocalizedString   quot mySectionName quot     quot mySectionName quot                break          case 1              sectionName   NSLocalizedString   quot myOtherSectionName quot     quot myOtherSectionName quot                break                         default              sectionName     quot  quot               break                return sectionName      Swift func tableView   tableView  UITableView  titleForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  String         let sectionName  String     switch section           case 0              sectionName   NSLocalizedString  quot mySectionName quot   comment   quot mySectionName quot           case 1              sectionName   NSLocalizedString  quot myOtherSectionName quot   comment   quot myOtherSectionName quot                          default              sectionName    quot  quot            return sectionName

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If you are writing code in Swift it would look as an example like this  func tableView tableView  UITableView  titleForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  String        switch section               case 0              return  Apple Devices          case 1              return  Samsung Devices          default              return  Other Devices

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Nothing wrong with the other answers but this one offers a   non-programmatic solution that may be useful in situations where one   has a small static table  The benefit is that one can organize the   localizations using the storyboard  One may continue to export   localizations from Xcode via XLIFF files  Xcode 9 also has several new tools to make localizations easier     original   I had a similar requirement  I had a static table with static cells in my Main storyboard Base   To localize section titles using  string files e g  Main strings German  just select the section in storyboard and note the Object ID     Afterwards go to your string file  in my case Main strings German  and insert the translation like    MLo-jM-tSN headerTitle     Localized section title     Additional Resources    Apple WWDC 2017  Medium Article on Localization   Xcode 9   Swift 4

[iphone] How to set the UITableView Section title programmatically (iPhone/iPad)?

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