Custom CellIdentifier is Null When Using Search Display Controller

As of here search display controller question, you need to access the self.tableView instead of tableView:

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{    UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"CellId"];    // do your thing    return cell;}

For those using iOS 5 and StoryBoards, you would want to use the following method instead of initWithIdentifier:

initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)stylereuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier

Example:

  NSString *cellIdentifier = @"ListItemCell";  UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];  if (cell == nil) {    cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];  }

I'm not sure about how this should work in storeboarding.

But normally you would check if the [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier] returns a cell.Because if the cell in not loaded before or there aren't any cells to reuse you will have to create a new cell:

SpeakerCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];if (cell == nil) {   cell = [[SpeakerCell alloc] initWithIdentifier: CellIdentifier];}

Also when in declaring local variables in Objective-C we tent not to capitalize the first letter.