iOS 8 SDK Development, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8Growing Our Application

So far, our app interface has been restricted to a single view. We’ve swapped different functionality into and out of this view, but ultimately the small space of an iPhone screen limits what we can do in a single view. In this chapter, we’re going to broaden our world by adding the ability to move among multiple view controllers, each of which will provide a unique interface and functionality for different concerns of our app. To do this, we’ll learn about how iOS uses navigation controllers to help the user move between these different view controllers. This will open up our app to an almost unlimited potential for functionality; if we want to add a new screen, we just need to write a new view controller and ...