UIScrollView: The Workhorse of iOS

Whenever I set out to do anything that involves panning, pinching or zooming, I always ask myself: "Can I just use a UIScrollView for that?"

There are plenty of places where UIScrollView is the obvious choice. But I find myself using it even when it doesn't seem so obvious as a solution.

In a personal app that I am working on, I wanted to have UITableViewCell sliding similar to Mailbox. I started out by adding a container view to a custom UITableViewCell and then attaching a UIPanGestureRecognizer to that. This worked pretty well, but the code gets pretty messy especially if you want to have the inertial scrolling and paging behavior that we have come to know and love from UIScrollView. Then it hit me: why not try adding a UIScrollView instead of sort of rolling my own.

I was pretty happy with the result, and will be using this in my own app.