Why does UITableViewCell have a contentView property?

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Published on 2010-04-10T17:51:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 17:53 UTC
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What's the point of this contentView property? I mean: Why aren't all the subviews just added to self?

Let me get that right: Every cell is a view (UITabvleViewCell is a UIView subclass). And this fat view has another fat view with same bounds sitting on top of it, called contentView. That contentView then carries all those other subviews.

Now why didn't they save that extra chunk of memory? Is there any genius logic behind this decision? Would love to understand the reason for this.

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