Chapter 3. Creating Multi-Screen Applications Using the MVC Pattern
In the first chapter, we created our first application using MonoTouch for the iOS. We used outlets and actions, got to know the basic application structure, and made a simple user interface. However, it had a couple major flaws, one of which is that it only had one screen. In this chapter, we're going to look at how to create multi-screened applications in the iOS using Views and View Controllers.
Specifically, we'll use the UINavigationController to navigate to two different pages/screens in our application. Before we begin, however, we need to briefly review an important design pattern that Cocoa Touch uses, called the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Model-View-Controller ...
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