Chapter 7. Tab Bars and Pickers

In the last chapter, you built your first multiview application. In this chapter, you're going to build a full tab bar application with five different tabs and five different content views. Building this application is going to reinforce a lot of what you learned in the last chapter, but you're too smart to spend a whole chapter doing stuff you already sorta know how to do, so we're going to use those five content views to show you how to use a type of iPhone control that we have not covered yet. The control is called the picker view, although it's usually just called the picker.

You may not be familiar with the name, but you've almost certainly used a picker if you've owned an iPhone for more than, say, 10 minutes. ...

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