[iPhone SDK] Preference view design/implementation

Hi, everyone!
I want to add preference view in my application (build on iPhone SDK 3.0), but don't want to use preference bundle for several reasons.
And I can't find any suitable UI component to do it (maybe it's UITableView with custom views (with rounded corners)?
Any thoughts on it?
Thanks for attention.
Have a good day

The rounded corners you see in the system Settings app are produced by a UITableView created with UITableViewStyleGrouped. Each group of cells in a rounded frame is a section of the table view, so you can duplicate a typical Settings page by setting the number of sections and the number of rows per section.
It looks like you could build most of the cells in Settings by simply adding your own images and/or controls to standard UITableViewCell instances.
Several of the pages in the UICatalog sample app provide good examples of how to code Grouped style table views with cells similar to some of the Settings cells. That sample code is for 3.0, btw, but almost all of the code is appropriate for 2.x as well.
If you need help with table views and table view cells in general, see the Table View Programming Guide for iPhone OS.
For more basic instruction, see Chapter 8 of +Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK+ by Mark and LaMarche.

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