UITableViewController will not call cellForRowAtIndexPath but numberOfSectionsInTableView and numberOfRowsInSection are set correctly

Decision:

The solution was to start by starting correctly with the UITableView and then adding UITableView delegates to the UIViewController as mentioned in the selected answer.

Foreword: I've read almost every article on the subject and nothing has helped.

I am embedding UITableViewController UITableView in UIViewController.

I understand that nothing will be called if the view is rendered, so I render it, and I can use NSLog to show that it got into those methods.

I tried to create a UITableViewController in the InterfaceBuilder and set my subclass as my own class that works! But that's not how I need to do it. Here's what I put together / did:

• I am using InterfaceBuilder to control the UIViewController, but I am adding the UITableView programmatically
• Both delegate and dataSource are set correctly and self.tableView is not nil
• Despite correct logging, cellForRowAtIndexPath is never called and the displayed UITableView is empty.
• I added delegates to my controller which didn't change anything

I have set the following in UITableViewController:

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
    NSLog(@"%@", self.questions); // This outputs the questions array as not empty and works
    // As you can see I am also returning 1.
    return 1;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    NSLog(@"%d", [self.questions count]); // This outputs 4 as it should
    return [self.questions count];
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    // All we need to focus on is this NSLog which never outputs
    NSLog(@"Was called and array is, %@" self.questions);

    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    return cell;
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I tried to customize the view in many ways: by adding a UITableViewController directly, adding a UITableViewController to a UITableView (which seems to be correct), but nothing seems to work.

Perhaps there is a big step I forgot when working with InterfaceBuilder or some random thing that I forgot. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank!

** UPDATE ** This is how I add either UiTableViewController or UITavleView

GTTableViewController *tvc = [[GTTableViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];
// Either
[self.view addSubview:tvc.view];
// OR
[self.view addSubview:tvc.tableView];
// Just to make sure everything is still ok.. and I see the 2/3 TV methods fire.
[self.tableView reloadData];