How can you achieve the glass like look and feel?

I would like to know how it can be achieved if the images and content of table view cell is to be downloaded over the air and refreshed for every specific time.

Any info would be appreciable.

I was doing this in my app delegate:

m_pMainViewController = [[RootViewController alloc] init];

As opposed to this:

m_pMainViewController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:[[RootViewController alloc] init]];

… and then everything started working nicely. Which is nice! As for your other comments; I’m glad it’s not just me. I tried the Interface Builder a little but it seemed to detach me from what was going on in the code and more often than not, I dragged one thing to where it shouldn’t be, etc. The problem that I am having is that many of the books and web sites are focused on doing this stuff with IB so it’s a slow haul whilst I figure out basic errors like the above.

Thanks again for your article, btw., it was more than helpful: I’m finally beginning to understand how all this stuff fits together. If I can just stop typing std::vector, -> and virtual ~ViewController() all the time and actually fall into Objective C, I’m laughing. :-)

As far as viewLoaded not being called, are the classes inherited from UIViewController?

I’m also trying to do stuff without the InterfaceBuilder (learning how everything plugs together in code and all that). The only catch I ended up with after my modifications is that my table cell clicked on code does fire, but the view I’m pushing on doesn’t appear any longer. I then discovered that none of the viewLoaded() events are getting fired any longer in my root view controller. I guess I did too much at once: removed all the NIB files and added this :) The table’s great, by the way, just that I’ve lost the firing of all the view controller overloaded functions. Any clues as to what schoolboy error I’m making? I’m sure it’s trivial.

Honestly, I’m not sure if that’s a bug in the implementation or a side-effect that one has to deal with when using custom cells.